# data[].attributes.body
Winds are simply moving air.

# data[].attributes.body
The move from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure

# data[].attributes.body
The Jet Stream is an air current. It is kind

of like a river of air.

# data[].attributes.body
The Jet Streams move from west to east, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean

# data[].attributes.body
It is important to us because it brings us our weather. Our weather starts over the Pacific Ocean across the plains to us.

# data[].attributes.body
Watch this video

# data[].attributes.body
Trade winds are winds that move in regular patterns.  They are caused by lots of evaporation which rises into the air.  Once it cools, it falls back to earth.  That moving air is a trade wind.

Watch this video for a good explanation

# data[].attributes.body
They move from east the west, the opposite of jet streams

# data[].attributes.body
They do a couple of things:
1)  They make travel coming from the east coast or Europe faster.
2)  They bring goods to trade from eastern locations.
3) In the past, they were an active part of the slave trade. They brought slaves from Africa to the Americas. Slavery is wrong and brought lots of damage to African cultures. It is an unfortunate part of history that affected the way the United States and other countries developed.

# data[].attributes.body
The Coriolis effect is what happens to the water and wind as the earth turns.  It makes the winds and water bend away from their straight paths to the curved paths we know today.

# data[].attributes.body
Water and wind on Earth should travel in straight lines from the equator to the poles and then back again.  But they don't.

The Earth takes 24 hours to make one rotation on its axis.  That means that a spot on the equator has to move faster than a spot at the north pole in order to get turned all the way in those 24 hours.

As the parts go faster, they pull the water and air along with them, causing the path of the water and air to curve.

# data[].attributes.body
The Coriolis effect changes the way that water patterns and air patterns flow. We use these currents (both air and water) to look for weather, to make travel easier, and to understand how our climates are affected by warm air and water versus cold air and water