Winds
Latitude
- The zone near the equator heats up!
- Warm air rises and cool air goes beneath the Earths surface
- Earth spins on its axis from the east to west, This causes the winds to veer sideways
- There is more land in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere
- Since Land heats up more quickly than water
- There is more Air rising in the Northern Hemisphere, This changes the movement of the winds of the Earth!
-Energy from the sun is spreaded over a larger area and is less concentrated
- If i move closer to the equator, it would be a lot hotter. It would be hotter because there is more direct energy from the sun
Nermin
David
Ocean Currents
Ocean currents are flows of water within an ocean by wind, gravity and the spinning of Earth
- Within oceans are massive flows of water which is ocean currents
- Cold currents begin in polar regions which brings cool water towards the equator
-10% of ocean currents are warm surface currents
- Movement of warm and cold currents creates a global ocean circulation system, this is called a conveyor belt
-It takes a thousand years for a single particle to make a complete circuit around the global ocean circulation system
Jenny
Air Masses
- Air mass is a large body of air
- It is a warm body of air that moisture
- As the global winds carry the air masses along they bring warm, wet weather, which, along the areas under them
Luke