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As you may or may not know, there are areas of high and low pressure all over the Earth. Just as water moves from high to low concentration in osmosis, air moves from high pressure to low pressure. This movement is called wind.

Wind is caused on the Earth because of the Sun. The Sun heats up the mantle of the Earth and this makes the warmer air rise above the cooler air. This causes a space that needs to be replaced. Cooler air rushes in to replace this void and "Wind" occurs. Wind is caused also by the same cooling pattern by taking the warmer air around the equator and moving it towards the poles, usually in the form of tropical storms or hurricanes and taking this heat and transferring it to cooler regions.

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