The navigator also had to add any movement of the ship to the side caused by waves or the wind.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The wind came again. Finally,the men heard a new sound C the sound of waves breaking and crashing on the shore.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Radioactive particles travel in the wind and get absorbed into soil with the help of rain and snow.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

The most severe tornadoes can reach wind speeds of three hundred twenty kilometers an hour or more.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

A pleasing piece of music could be heard, and a gentle wind was blowing through the window.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Pieces of gypsum broke off. The wind wore them away to a size small enough to pick up and carry for short distances.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

The action of wind and water can form cave openings like natural rooms within the rock.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

It is formed by the action of wind and water on rocks over thousands of years.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

It takes the right combination of wind,temperature,pressure and humidity to create even a weak tornado.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

This time,scientists hope to learn more about the formation, wind speed and shape of tornadoes.

VOA: special.2009.06.09