Wind Flip Book
“Air Movement”
Wind Patterns
Using textbook 14-3 & 15-3 Students will identify, describe and
draw wind patterns.
1) Label vocabulary words
1. Surface current
2. Trade winds
Tropical wind the blows almost continually towards the equator from
either the northeast or the southeast.
3. Mountain breeze
Valley Breeze
4. Prevailing Westerlies
Between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude north or south of the
equator, winds blow in the opposite direction of the trade winds.
Prevailing easterlies
Between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude north or south of the
equator, winds blow in the same direction as the trade winds.
5. Polar Westerlies
The winds blow from northwest to the southeast near the
North Pole and from the southwest to the northeast near the
South Pole
Polar easterlies
Winds blow from the northeast to the southwest near the north pole
and from the south east to the north west near the south pole.
6. Sea breeze
Daily movements of air created when cooler, denser air moving inland
from the ocean forces warm air over the land to rise
Land breeze
Nightly movements of air created when cold air over the land forces up the
warmer air above the sea.
7. Coriolis Effect
Global Winds
8. Jet stream
Air Mass
9. Climate
Weather
10. Cold Front
Warm Front
11. Layers of the Atmosphere
3) Define terms
4) Draw an illustration representing vocabulary terms.