WHAT MAKES WINDS? It is because the air does not press equally all
the time and everywhere that we have winds. Naturally, if the air is
pressing harder in one place than in another, the lower air will be
pushed sidewise in the areas of high pressure and will rush to the
areas where there is less pressure. And air rushing from one place to
another is called _wind_.
[Illustration: FIG. 10.]
_APPLICATION 4._ A man had two water reservoirs, which stood
at the same level, one on each side of a hill. The hill
between them was about 50 feet high. One reservoir was full,
and the other was empty. He wanted to get some of the water
from the full reservoir into the empty one. He did not have a
pump to force the water from one to the other, but he did have
a long hose, and could have bought more. His hose was long
enough to reach over the top of the hill, but not long enough
to go around it. Could he have siphoned the water from one
reservoir to the other? Would he have had to buy more hose?
_APPLICATION 5._ Two boys were out hiking and were very
thirsty. They came to a deserted farm and found a deep well;
it was about 40 feet down to the water. They had no pump,
but there was a piece of hose about 50 feet long. One boy
suggested that they drop one end of the hose down to the water
and suck the water up, but the other said that that would not
work--the only way would be to lower the hose into the water,
close the upper end, pull the hose out and let the water pour
out of the lower end of the hose into their mouths. A stranger
came past while the boys were arguing, and said that neither
way would work; that although the hose was long enough, the
water was too far down to be raised in either way. He advised
the boys to find a bucket and to use the hose as a rope for
lowering it. Who was right?
INFERENCE EXERCISE
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