Lab 5 JurjevichGEOG 101PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: Weather and ClimateFall 2006Name____________________________1. What is wind? What is the cause of wind?2. What two factors are used by meteorologists to measure wind?3. Briefly explain the relationship between temperature and pressure.4. What are the 3 main forces that determine wind speed and direction on amacro scale? Briefly explain each force.5. Explain why coastal areas receive sea breezes during the day and have land breezes at night.6. What are cyclones and anti-cyclones and in what direction is the wind around each in the Northern hemisphere?Lab 5 Jurjevich7. What is the ITCZ?8. Explain how the Bermuda High controls the weather in the Southeast formost of the Summer.9. What is the name of the ocean current that brings warm water from the Southern Atlantic/Caribbean along the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and all the way across the Northern Atlantic to
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