Wind
Taylor Croom
What Is Wind?
Wind is moving air that is caused by air pressure within our atmosphere. Wind can be slow and also can be very fast. Wind goes in different directions, the direction of the wind is expressed by the direction from which its coming from.
What Does Wind Do?
Wind is a very important thing. It can shape landforms, It can make new plants by blowing the seeds to a different place, It helps birds go in a direction they want to go, Wind can help airplanes and kites the same way. It can also be a bad thing like a hurricane, thunderstorm, or a tornando. But now and days we use wind turbines to create energy, these things look like giant skinny windmills but there all over the world. These wind turbines blow the right wind for everyone, when it isnt safe they stop them.
Some Pictures of Wind
Storm Wind
This is an example of the "bad" wind. Apparently by the look of this picture its a hurricane or a severe thunderstorm. A Hurricane wind can be very dangerous, Just by the look at the tree you can tell its bad.
Good Wind
This is an example of wind when its not bad. As you can see in the picture there is a sailboat floating on water, the wind is helping the boat move in a safe slow direction. If it was bad wind the boat would be all over the place.
Wind Turbine
This is an example of a Wind Turbine. In this picture you can see like 4 wind turbines doing there job, and that job is to blow out wind. You can see the turbines blowing out the wind in this picture. I thought this picture would be a great example of what a Wind Turbine does.
Wind Power
Wind power is a conservation of energy (wind energy). Such as wind turbines to make electrical power, windmills for mechanical power, wind pumps for water,pumping, or drainage, Or sails to propel ships. There are these places called wind farms where there is thousands of wind turbines that are connected to a Electrical power transmission network. Wind power is very consistent year to year but it has significant variation over shorter time scales.