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        Convective air currents.  As equatorial air heart convection cuase it to rise and move north or south towards the poles, and then the earth's rotation causes a coriolis effect that makes the air travel towards the east.  This causes the prevailing winds in temperate regions to be west-to-east.
     
     
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
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