The Stem Encyclopedia of Wind

The Stem Encyclopedia of Wind book cover — The Stem Encyclopedia of Wind Illustrated by Written by Gerry Bailey Yuliya Somina Published by BrambleKids

The Stem Encyclopedia of Wind — page 1 — COntents 16-17 El Niño Temperature changes Troublemaker Killing the coral 4-5 WHAT IS WIND What makes wind blow Windsocks Weathervanes Weather balloons 6-7 BREEZE TO GALE Wind speed The Beaufort Scale Measuring wind 8-9 MOVING GASES Oxygen Gases in the air Carbon dioxide 10-11 DESTRUCTIVE WINDS Storms at sea Early warning Wind speed Twisters and waterspouts 12-13 MAKING WAVES Trade winds Currents Wind and tides Crossing the Pacific The Kon-Tiki 14-15 JET STREAMS Westerley winds Flying the jet stream High in the sky 18-19 WIND IN SPACE Aurora Planetary wind Solar wind Comets and meteors 20-21 NAMING THE WIND Wind gods Names of winds Haboobs 22-23 WINDY CLIMATE Wind and weather Air pressure Mapping air pressure Barometers 24-25 WINDSWEPT Desertification Lost Kolmanskop Vanishing hedgerows Great Green Wall of Africa 26-27 WIND EROSION Aeolian processes

The Stem Encyclopedia of Wind — page 2 — 28-29 SPREADING SEEDS Seeds in the wind Seeds with wings Pollen in the wind Tumbleweed 30-31 SMELLS IN THE WIND History of smells How perfumes are made Animal scents Bad smells Why things smell 32-33 FARMING WITH WIND Windmills Different windmills Turning sails Salt pans 34-35 DRIED CROPS Winnowing Scarecrows Dried meats Wind-drying fish 36-37 MESSING IN BOATS Dinghies Circumnavigating Yachts Land sailing Windsurfing 38-39 WIND TRAVEL Early seafarers Explorers Tall ships Skysails cargo ships Cutty Sark 40-41 FLYING THE FLAG History of flags National flags ShipZs messages World flags City flags 42-43 FLY A KITE Early kites Kite festivals Fighting kites 44-45 WIND MUSIC Brass Didgeridoo Blow your horn Reed and lips Bagpipes Panpipes and flutes 46-47 BIRDS How birds glide Largest birds Soaring on thermals Bats Bird migration 48-49 ANIMAL WIND SENSE Infrasonic sounds Sharks Wind birds Whales 50-51 HUMAN FLIGHT Leonardo da Vinci Early flying 52-53 IN FLIGHT Getting up Super Airbus Takeoff and landing Gliding 54-55 WIND RESISTANCE Slowing down Speeding up Airflow 56-57 ART IN THE WIND Wind art The Bucket Fountain 58-59 WIND AND POWER Wind and electricity How turbines work Wind farms GLOSSARY and INDEX

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