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Prevailing Winds AKA: Global Wind Belts Where convection cells (air masses) meet forming jet streams and prevailing winds Winds move from a area of high.

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2 Prevailing Winds AKA: Global Wind Belts Where convection cells (air masses) meet forming jet streams and prevailing winds Winds move from a area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.

3 Easterlies : Polar Easterlies- high altitudes, cold dense air that blows East to West. (from the Poles to the Equator) Trade winds- Low altitudes, blow East to West toward the Equator.

4 Westerlies: Mid latitudes blow West to East toward the poles.

5 Other: Pressure belts from inbetween the wind belts Doldrums: along the equator. Heating causes the sir to expand, resulting in cloudy, rainy weather.

6 Trade winds Blow East to West Polar Easterlies Color red Equator

7 Blow West to East Color red Equator Prevailing westerlies

8 Color red Equator 30°S 60°S 60°N 0°


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