Why Does the Wind Blow?
1. Pre-Read: Mark each statement T or F
2. Post-Read: Mark T or F as you read.
3. Change any wording to make the False
sentences true.
PreRead
PostRead
Pages 59-62
Why Does the Wind Blow?
1. Pre-Read: Mark each statement T or F
2. Post-Read: Mark T or F as you read.
3. Change the wording to make the false
sentences true.
Pages 59-62
PreRead
PostRead
1. _____ _____ Meteorologists use the word,
“convection” to describe the movement of
heat.
1. _____ _____ Meteorologists use the word,
“convection” to describe the movement of
heat.
2. _____ _____ Convection results from
temperatures that are the same.
2. _____ _____ Convection results from
temperatures that are the same.
3. _____ _____ Land breezes and sea breezes are
caused by conduction
3. _____ _____ Land breezes and sea breezes are
caused by conduction
4. _____ _____During the day, land warms up
faster than the water in lakes or oceans.
4. _____ _____During the day, land warms up
faster than the water in lakes or oceans.
5 _____ _____ At night the land cools slower
than the water does, so air over the
water
becomes cooler than the air over the land.
5 _____ _____ At night the land cools slower
than the water does, so air over the
water
becomes cooler than the air over the land.
6. ______ ____ Land breezes occur during the
day
6. ______ ____ Land breezes occur during the
day
7. ______ ______Sea breezes flow from land to
the ocean.
7. ______ ______Sea breezes flow from land to
the ocean.
8. _______ _______ The equator and the poles
are not heated evenly.
8. _______ _______ The equator and the poles
are not heated evenly.
9. _____ _____ The poles are not warm because
the poles are tilted away from the sun.
9. _____ _____ The poles are not warm because
the poles are tilted away from the sun.
10. _____ _____ Trade Winds, Westerlies, and
Easterlies are names of different kinds of global
winds that form because of the the sun’s energy.
10. _____ _____ Trade Winds, Westerlies, and
Easterlies are names of different kinds of global
winds that form because of the the sun’s energy.
11.______ ______Trade Winds flow away from
the equator turning east as they go.
11.______ ______Trade Winds flow away from
the equator turning east as they go.
12. _____ _____Westerlies flow from east to
west.
12. _____ _____Westerlies flow from east to
west.
13. _____ _____Easterlies flow from west to
east.
13. _____ _____Easterlies flow from west to
east.
14. _____ _____ The Jet Stream consists of long,
narrow tubes of air in the upper troposphere.
14. _____ _____ The Jet Stream consists of long,
narrow tubes of air in the upper troposphere.
15. ______ _____ Monsoons are examples of
global winds
15. ______ _____ Monsoons are examples of
global winds
16. ______ _____ Jet streams travel a maximum
of 200 km per hour
16. ______ _____ Jet streams travel a maximum
of 200 km per hour
17. _______ _____Jet streams are warm in the
SW USA.
17. _______ _____Jet streams are warm in the
SW USA.
After reading about local winds and global winds.
Check out the map on p. 49 of your textbook and
the diagrams on p. 61 again.
Why Does the Wind Blow?
p.59
1. Why does the wind blow?
18. Explain how you think tornadoes might form
in the United States.
19.the diagrams on p. 61 again. Explain how you
think hurricanes might form on the planet Earth.
Why Does the Wind Blow? Pp.59-62,
Catastrophic Events, Lesson 5.1
Read the article thoroughly, and then answer the
questions below.
p.59
1. Why does the wind blow?
2. Local winds are caused by a form of heat transfer
in air called _____________________.
3. Convection currents occur in fluids. Name the important
fluids on Earth that form convection currents affecting
weather.
p.61.
Describe what each type of wind is and why it
blows the way it does
3. Trade Winds
2. Local winds are caused by a form of heat transfer
in air called _____________________.
Convection currents occur in fluids. Name the
important fluids on Earth that form convection
currents affecting weather.
4. Westerlies
p.61.
5. Easterlies
Complete the picture of the global winds by
labeling the direction and name of all the air
currents described.
3. Trade Winds
4. Westerlies
5. Easterlies
Jet Stream, p. 62
Answer the questions below:
10. What is it? :
Jet Stream, p. 62
Answer the questions below:
10. What is it? :
11. Speed:
11. Speed:
12. Effect on the earth and weather predicting:
12. Effect on the earth and weather predicting:
13. Possible benefit to jet pilots:
13. Possible benefit to jet pilots: