Which of the following would involve the greatest change in atmospheric pressure?
A) horizontal airplane flight of 200 miles
B) balloon ascent from sea level to 3 miles
C) travel from center of a low pressure system to center of a high pressure system
D) difference between the highest and lowest recorded pressure at any one weather station
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Q1: If the earth were not rotating,
A)all winds
Q2: The maximum pressure range of the atmosphere
Q4: What is a limitation of an altimeter
Q5: The term pressure gradient refers to:
A)change in
Q6: Who invented the mercury barometer?
A)Galileo
B)Bergeron
C)Toricelli
D)Celsius
Q7: Divergence in the atmosphere is best defined
Q8: It the Earth were not rotating:
A)all air
Q9: What units of pressure are used when
Q10: If air pressure is reduced by one-half
Q11: Air pressure drops _ with altitude in
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