what makes the wind blow/ move?

Answer 1

Many reasons are there:
1. Earth's gravity
2. Earth's rotation
3. Moon's gravity (Lunar gravitational pull - very low impact)
4. Temperature variations (hot air raises upwards, cold air blows downwards)
5. Sea-Land junctures (i.e., sea breeze and land breeze)

Answer 2

Wind is the effect we feel when air in some place is heated and becomes lighter than the surrounding air and forms a bubble and rises, and other air molecules rush past us, to fill the space that is left by the rising air. The more air that rises, the more air needed to replace it, so the greater the wind.

It is also the effect we feel when a bubble of air in the upper atmosphere cools and forms a bubble that falls to the ground, and the air beneath it rushes past us as the bubble of colder air pushes it out of the way.

Some of the things that can affect the force and directionality of the wind are temperature differences between two places, barometric pressure differences between two places, relative humidity between two places, smog and particle content differences between two places, solid objects in the path of the wind like mountains and trees and islands, the spin of the earth, the tidal pull of the moon, the sun, and other heavenly bodies.

But, the thing that makes the wind blow, is when air rushes past us to replace the air in a place of lower pressure beneath a hot air bubble, and when air is pushed past us by the higher pressure caused by a falling air bubble.

Answer 3

Hi!!
Wind is the rough horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earth's surface. It occurs at all scales, from local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting tens of minutes to global winds resulting from solar heating of the Earth. The two major influences on the atmospheric circulation are the differential heating between the equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet (Coriolis effect).

Given a difference in barometric pressure between two air masses, a wind will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of high pressure to the area of low pressure until the two air masses are at the same pressure, although these flows will be modified by the Coriolis effect in the extratropics.

Winds can be classified either by their scale, the kinds of forces which cause them (according to the atmospheric equations of motion), or the geographic regions in which they exist. There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds, such as the jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features such as the sea breeze. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of meters and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.

Winds can also shape landforms, via a variety of eolian processes.

For more details, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind

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Answer 4

Convection. The sun heats the surface of the earth unevenly. The hotter part of the atmosphere rises and the colder more dense air blows in to fill the void.

Answer 5

hot air

Answer 6

atmospheric pressure

Answer 7

atmospheric pressure

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