Winds

Wind belt located between 60^o and 90^o.

• trade winds

• jet stream

• polar easterlies

• westerlies

Name the area without wind located at 30^o north and south.

• doldrums

• horse latitudes

• polar easterlies

• westerlies

Rising air creates _______ air pressure at Earth's surface.

• low

• high

Name the wind belt located from 90^o to 60^o north and south.

• polar easterlies

• trade winds

• jet stream

• westerlies

When air is heated, it becomes less dense and _____. As air cools, it becomes more dense and _____.

• sinks/rises

• rises/sinks

Name the wind belt located between 30^o and 60^o north and south.

• trade winds

• westerlies

• jet stream

• polar easterlies

Name the wind belt located between 30^o and 0^o north and south.

• jet stream

• trade winds

• westerlies

• polar easterlies

(a)   is moving air.

Earth's rotation and (a)   heating of its surface cause a pattern of wind belts separated by pressure zones.

Wind belt that blows from 30^o north and south toward the equator.

• trade winds

• jet stream

• polar easterlies

• westerlies