1)What are trade
winds, easterlies,
and westerlies?
What is the
latitude for each
of them. Include
a diagram
2)What are jet
streams? What
speeds do they
travel? Where
are they the
fastest? How far
above the
surface are they?
3)What are land
and sea
breezes? Use a
diagram.
1) Trade winds are winds that
blow from east to west
between 0 and 30 degrees
latitude. Easterlies are winds
that blow from east to west
between 60 and 90 degrees
latitude, storms occur when
easterlies and westerlies
meet. Westerlies are winds
that blow from west to east
from 30 to 60 degrees
latitude.
2) Jet streams are a type of
wind in the upper
atmosphere that blow from
west to east for thousands of
kilometers, they separate
warm and cool air. Jet
streams can go up to 200
mph. The larger the
temperature difference the
faster the jet stream will go.
These winds occur 6-9 miles
above earth.
3) Land and Sea breezes occur
near shorelines. The land
heats up faster during the
day, you have high pressure
over the water blowing
toward the land. The land
cools down faster during
4)How are land and
sea breezes
different at night?
5)What causes
monsoons? How
are the
monsoons in the
summer different
than the
monsoons in the
winter?
night, so you have high
pressure over the land going
toward the sea.
4) During the day the high
pressure is over the water.
During the night high
pressure is over the land.
5) Monsoons are caused by the
changing of the winds’
direction. The winter
monsoons occur when the
land is cooler. The summer
monsoons occur when the
land is warmer. Monsoons
last for a much longer period
than land and sea breezes.
Sea and land breezes switch
daily, monsoons switch
seasonally.