Instruments
Types of wind
Basics
Jet stream
Chemistry
100
Anemometer
What measures wind speed?
100
When wind is brought in by the ocean
What is a sea breeze?
100
moving air
What is wind?
100
strong winds that go west to east near the top of the troposphere
What is the jet stream?
100
air rushes out
What happens when you open the neck of a balloon?
200
Wind vane or Wind sock
What measures wind direction?
200
When wind goes out to sea from land
What is a land breeze?
200
low pressure and high pressure
What does air move to?
200
A few hundred miles
How long is the jet stream?
200
If there wasn't wind, all of our days would be the same temperature?
How does wind affect our weather?
300
Three cups spinning around
What does an anemometer look like?
300
Northward
What is Where does the jet stream shift in the summer?
300
West winds
What is the name of the wind that moves west to east?
300
How high is the jet stream?
6 miles high
300
Global winds
What are winds that blow around the world?
400
A rooster
What is usually on top of a wind vane?
400
180 mph
How fast can the west winds blow?
400
March
What is the windiest month on Mount Washington?
400
West to East
In what direction does the jet stream blow?
400
West to east
In the USA wind moves in what direction?
500
A fish or a horse
What animals can be on top of the wind vane?
500
uneven heating
What causes global winds?
500
August
What is the least windiest month on Mount Washington?
500
As far south as Florida
How far south can the jet stream bring weather?
500
Southward
What is Where does the jet stream shift in the winter
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