Wind in North Dakota!!!!

Earth’s Force-Wind

• Westerlies• Easterlies• Trade winds• Cold fronts• Warm fronts• Global-Local

What makes Wind: Watch for what causes wind.What is a cold front, a warm front.The types of wind.

• Bill Nye on Wind

Treasure Hunt

• Around the room there are 15 questions. See if you can hunt and find the 15 questions.

• Answer the 16 questions on your work sheet.• This is not a race.• You will have 15 minutes to answer all the

questions.• Return to your desks when I count to 5 in 15

minutes. Good luck!!

Vocabulary

• Rotation• Force• Warm front• Cold front• Pressure• Mass• Temperature• Dense

Vocabulary

Rotation: The spinning of the Earth on its axis.Force: Any push or pullWarm front: Patch of warm airCold front: A patch of cold airAir Pressure: pressure pushing down on EarthMass- Matter that makes up an objectTemperature- how hot or cold something is.Density-comparing an objects mass to its volume

Warm front

Cold front

Density

WIND

• Pros and cons of wind.

Wind

• Wind turbines electricity • Spreads seeds• Dries out the land• Travel-sailboat• Dries clothes• Fly a kite • Parachute

• Tornadoes• Cyclones• Hurricanes• Flying dirt

Pros Cons

• Students will research one of the pros or cons for wind and write a paragraph about it. They will share the paragraph with the class.

Lewis and Clark

• How did Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis??• How important was the wind?• How long did it take them to reach ND?• How could they have improved their time?

As you watch the video watch how the men have to move the boat up the Missouri.

• Lewis & Clark