Global Weather Patterns

Grab your orange folder, notebook paper, and a pencil. Write notes as you go thorugh the slides.​

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Grab an 8th grade textbook and turn to the section about weather patterns. Write vocab words and any extra notes.​

More notes = More credit

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Given an exit ticket, SWBAT recognize that the Sun provides the energy that drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds with 100% accuracy.

Success Criteria

(SE 8.10A) SWBAT recognize that the Sun provides the energy that drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds.

Learning Goal

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What produces wind?

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Wind patterns that occur on a global scale are the movement of air by convection, which is powered by energy from the sun.

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A jet stream is a band of fast moving wind that is high up in the atomosphere.

Jet Stream

Wind is air in motion.

It's produced by the uneven heating of Earth's surface​ by the sun.

Wind

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A high-pressure system is a mass of cool, dry air.

This type of system usually brings fair weather and light winds​

High Pressure

A low-pressure system is a mass of air that is warm and moist.

This type of system usually brings stormy weather with stong winds.​

Low Pressure

fair weather = good weather

A sea breeze is wind that blows from the sea/ocean toward or onto the land.​

Sea Breeze

Land breezes occur at night when land cools faster than the sea, and blows from the land to the sea.​

Land Breeze

fair weather = good weather

Trade winds are winds blowing steadily toward the equator from an easterly direction.

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Trade Winds

Winds in the middle latitutes of the earth.

The winds blow:

West to East

Toward the poles​

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Prevailing Weaterlies

Winds that blow from the areas 30 degrees below each pole

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Polar Easterlies