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Chapter 5 Atmospheric Pressure and Wind

Horizontales
The poles are most closely associated with ____ pressure.
____ and land breezes both occur at night.
The denser packing of molecules at the bottom of the atmosphere than molecules at the top of the atmosphere is a result of
The reason winds exist is ____ heating of the Earth system.
The ___ occurs close to the Equator.
_____ waves are large undulations in the upper air westerlies.
A counterclockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as:
Coriolis effect exists because:
An example of a geostrophic wind is
The "horse latitudes" are zones of minimal winds which are associated with the ____ high pressure system
The United States tends to have the greatest average wind speeds in all seasons:
Over most of the United States ___ is the time of year with the greatest winds.
Verticales
___ are map lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure
Geostrophic wind always flows ____ to the isobars
You are standing on a shoreline with the ocean to your west. The wind is traveling from west to east. The wind would be called:
Rising of air over large areas is most properly known as ___.
The basic unit of pressure mapped on weather maps is:
In a surface anticyclone in the Southern Hemisphere, winds spiral :
Surface winds tend to be ___than those at a higher level.
Above the influence of friction, most winds follow a(n) ___ course
At Earth's surface, warm temperatures are associated with:
Flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to the
The region in which the intertropical convergence can be found is the:
The strong rise of air produces a:
Zonal air flow in the middle latitudes means a(n) ____flow of air.
El Niño is most closely associated with weakening of ____ current.