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The Trade Winds are in the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere. The Trade Winds blow near the equator. They are so called as trade in the days of sail relied upon these winds.
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What are Northeast Trade Winds?
Trade winds blow from the Northeast in the Northern Hemisphere. Trade winds are the prevailing winds of the tropics and a major component of circulation in the atmosphere.
What is global winds that blow constantly from the same direction and cover a large part of earths surface?
Prevailing winds.
Which is a calm area on Earths surface where warm air rises?
trade winds
Winds that provide a dependable route for trade?
trade winds
Where on Earths surface might you be if you are experiencing the trade winds?
You would be in the tropics, most likely between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south.
What is the definition for trade winds?
The prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere.
Where does the atmosphere exert pressure?
The earths winds
What are Northeast Trade Winds?
Trade winds blow from the Northeast in the Northern Hemisphere. Trade winds are the prevailing winds of the tropics and a major component of circulation in the atmosphere.
The portion of the atmosphere characterized by winds and other weather phenomena?
troposphere
What is global winds that blow constantly from the same direction and cover a large part of earths surface?
Prevailing winds.
Which is a calm area on Earths surface where warm air rises?
trade winds
What is the name of the winds that push weather west to east across the us found in the upper atmosphere?
It is called the TRADE WINDS.
Why were the winds between 30 degrees and 0 degrees north and south of the equator named trade winds?
The trade winds 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 tropospherenear the Earth's equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere, strengthening during the winter and when the Arctic oscillation is in its warm phase. Historically, the trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries, and enabled European empire expansion into the Americas and trade routes to become established across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
At 30 degrees north or south of the equator air descending to earths surface creates steady?
trade windsWinds
At 30 degrees north or south of the equator air descending to earths suface creates steady?
Trade Winds
What were winds between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south known as?
The Answer Is NOT trade winds
Which winds would Christopher Columbus use to return to Europe?
it is the trade winds that brought Columbus ships to the Caribbean
