GG101 Matching Exercises: Pressure

For each term in the first column, type a letter of the description in the second column that matches. When you're done click "Check Answers" to check your answers.

1. pressure
2. Pascal
3. millibar
4. kilopascal
5. sea level pressure
6. ideal gas law
7. flow aloft
8. isobar
9. pressure gradient
10. Coriolis effect
11. geostrophic wind
12. cyclone
13. anticyclone
14. trough
15. ridge
16. anemometer
17. wind vane
  1. pressure observed if the site were at sea level
  2. a closed low pressure system
  3. relationship among temperature, density, pressure
  4. line of equal pressure
  5. deflection of moving objects due to a rotating earth
  6. elongated area of low pressure
  7. a device for measuring wind direction
  8. unit of pressure equal to 1000 Pascals
  9. elongated area of high pressure
  10. unit of pressure equal to 100 Pascals
  11. any amount of force per unit area exerted by the atmosphere
  12. instrument to measure wind speed
  13. rate of change in pressure across a distance
  14. Newton per square meter, a standard unit of pressure
  15. refers to air flow above the effects of surface friction
  16. area of high pressure with circular isobars
  17. occurs if pressure gradient force equals Coriolis force

 
Matching exercises are modified from Aguado's Understanding Weather and Climate.