The Earth is known to have five prevailing wind zones. They are:
- Polar easterlies is known to flow from polar high-pressure belt in the direction of the temperate low-pressure belts and it is said to blow from the east.
- Westerlies moves from from the west toward the east.
- Horse latitudes, found in the north and south and moves or flow toward the prevailing westerlies or equator.
- Trade winds flows mainly from east to west that is north and south of the equator.
- The doldrums starts at low pressure or weak pressure gradients, and moves in the direction of the trade wind of North and south.
Some of the examples of ocean Currents in the world are:
- North Equatorial Current is known to be a westward wind-driven current
- Kuroshio Current is known as north-flowing and also a warm ocean current .
- North Pacific Current is known to flow from west-to-east .
- Alaskan Current has its current flowing counterclockwise.
- Counter Equatorial Current is known as an eastward flowing and also a wind-driven current
- South Equatorial Current is known to flow from east-to-west. etc.
<h3>What is the link between wind and ocean currents?</h3>
The winds is known to be a weather condition that carries surface water with them which therefore forms currents.
Note that as these currents are said to flow westward, the Coriolis effect which is a force that emanates from the rotation of the Earth is said to lower their intensity which can make the currents to bend to the right, facing the north.
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When silicon atoms bond, then silicates form which are minerals in which such elements as potassium, calcium, magnesium and aluminum combine with the silicon atoms to form minerals like feldspars of different types or if it is just silicon and oxygen that bond then it forms quartz.
In general, what are the himalayan mountains composed of: folded and bent rock.
- The geology of the Himalayas is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion.
- The Himalayas, which stretch over 2400 km between the Namcha Barwa syntaxis at the eastern end of the mountain range and the Nanga Parbat syntaxis at the western end, are the result of an ongoing orogeny — the collision of the continental crust of two tectonic plates, namely, the Indian Plate thrusting into the Eurasian Plate.
- The Himalaya-Tibet region supplies fresh water for more than one-fifth of the world population, and accounts for a quarter of the global sedimentary budget.
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“As a cold front moves into an area, the heavier (more dense) cool air pushes under the lighter (less dense) warm air, causing it to rise up into the troposphere. ... As the cold front passes, winds become gusty. There is a sudden drop in temperature, and also heavy rain, sometimes with hail, thunder, and lightning.”
