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7 Cards in this Set
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Doldrums
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Mostly very calm air In a band over the equator
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Latitude
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The distance of a place north or south of the equator
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Trade winds
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Warm, steady winds that blow back toward the equator in usually clear skies.
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Prevailing westerlies
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Cool air, usually moving quickly toward the poles from Ethernet west to east in both hemispheres
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Polar easterlies
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Cold, fairly weak winds blowing from east to west
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Prevailing winds
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Winds that blow more often from one direction than the other
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Jet streams
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Bands of high speed winds about 10 kilometers above the earths surface
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