{"id":1249,"date":"2020-10-11T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2024-01-23T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:04:21","slug":"introduction-to-winds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/introduction-to-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to winds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1249\" class=\"elementor elementor-1249\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ad939fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ad939fa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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jet-nav__item-1285 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/introduction-to-winds\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Introduction to winds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1284 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/how-do-winds-form\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">How do winds form?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1283 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/wind-classification\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Wind classification<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1282 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/types-of-winds\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Types of winds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1281 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/the-coriolis-effect\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">The Coriolis effect?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1280 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/land-and-sea-breeze\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Land and sea breeze<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1279 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/mountain-and-valley-breeze\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Mountain and valley breeze<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1278 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/how-are-winds-measured\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">How are winds measured?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-1277 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/wind-terminology\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Wind terminology<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a845f11 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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hold your palm over your nose, and breathe out hard \u2014 you must have felt something from your nose pressing against your palm, yes? You did not see it, but you felt it. What you feel is what we call <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">air<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Now, if you have seen a vacuum cleaner work, you will notice how it sucks all the little debris, pieces of rubbish, and dust in its path. Again, that was air being sucked together with all the little stuff.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Both scenarios have something to do with air that is being directed at or pulled from something. They both have something to do with air pressure and the movement of air from one place to the other. That is not &#8216;wind&#8217; yet, but we need to understand something about AIR so we can have a better understanding of the lesson on winds.<\/span><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_1314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1314\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-atmosphere.jpg\" alt=\"Air and the atmosphere\" width=\"570\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-atmosphere.jpg 570w, https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-atmosphere-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air and the atmosphere<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The earth is surrounded by the atmosphere (a blanket of gases). These gases extend about 400 miles into the sky above, and it is made up of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and many more others. All these gases that make up the atmosphere are what we commonly call Air.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Air, like other liquids and gases, is fluid. 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