Question

For the Northern Hemisphere:
List the three wind bands This wind band blows from ________ to _________
(example: east to west or west to east) This wind band falls between _____oN and _____oN latitude
1. Polar Easterlies

2. Prevailing Westerlies

3. The North East Trade Winds

Answer 1

1, East to West 60 degrees north latitude and reaches to the poles (90 degrees)

Answer 2

2. The Westerlies, anti-trades,[1] or Prevailing Westerlies, are the prevailing winds in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude, blowing from the high pressure area in the horse latitudes towards the poles. These prevailing winds blow from the west to the east,

Answer 3

3. The trade winds (also called trades) are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere. From 0-30 degrees latitude

Answer 4

How are you going with this?

Answer 5

Great, thanks.