Description: Fiction: The stages of the Beaufort wind scale are portrayed to stretch readers' imaginations. We see the wind pick up from a kiss of air, to a gentle breeze that shivers the shifting grasses, to a roiling hurricane that makes tree roots shudder. Nonfiction: Three key ways in which wind shapes the Earth are weathering, erosion, and deposition. These processes mean that wind can break down and move cliffs, boulders, topsoil, and other solid objects. Find out more in Wind, a title in the Our Changing Earth series.
