Sun
Landscape
1) When the sunrays hit the surface of the Earth, it is heated.
However, there is big a difference between how fast the land and the sea are heated.
The land is heated a lot faster than the sea.

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2) The air above land is heated faster than the air above the sea.
The hot air above land rises high into the sky, where it cools off.

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3) High in the sky the cold air now moves out over the sea.
Here it sinks down pressing cool air towards land.
The air moving towards land is what we know as wind.
That means it is the sun that makes the wind blow.

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