| A | B |
|---|
| wind | horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to lower pressure |
| anemometer | an instrument used to measure wind speed |
| wind-chill factor | increasing cooling caused by the wind |
| local wind | winds that blow over short distances |
| sea breeze | the flow of air from an ocean or lake to the land |
| land breeze | the flow of air from land to a body of water |
| monsoon | sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons |
| global wind | winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances |
| Coriolis effect | the way earths's rotation makes winds in the Northern Hemisphere curve to the right and winds in the Southern Hemisphere curve to the left |
| latitude | the distance from the equator, measured in degrees |
| jet stream | band of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers above Earth's surface |
