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Atmospheric Circulation

Looking Back: Air Pressure, Wind, and Pressure Systems

Assess your basic knowledge by answering the questions below or skip and continue reading.

 

1.Define air pressure.

2. How is high and low pressure defined?

3. Define "isobar" and "isobaric surface".

4. List and define the controls over wind direction.

5. Describe how wind flows around surface cyclones and anticyclones.

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
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