This is an educational site offered by NASA that has information on global winds, including prevailing westerlies, with illustrations. Included is a short activity to illustrate the winds.

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Concepts

air currents, trade winds

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Additional Tags

air movement, doldrums, earth science, polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, wind currents, coriolis effect, el nino: making sense of the weather: global wind patterns

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Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

NGSS

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