What is the elevation of the valley to the south of the wind gap (the valley with the Allegheny County/ Mineral County lines)? What is the vertical relief between the wind gap and the valley to the north? What is the vertical relief between the floor of the wind gap and the valley to the south?
What will be an ideal response?
700', 500' relief, 200' relief.
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Which of the following statements is true about an Ekman spiral?
A) The net flow of a wind-driven surface current in the Northern Hemisphere will flow at about a 50° angle to the wind. B) With increasing depth, each layer will move faster than the overlying layer of water. C) Because of Ekman transport, at some frictional depth, water will be moving in the opposite direction from the surface current. D) An Ekman spiral is not influenced by the Coriolis effect.
The surface wind patterns in Hadley cells are deflected from a north-south trajectory primarily by
A) Earth's rotation. B) air flow over mountains. C) deep ocean currents cooling and warming air. D) global climate change.
Which of the following circulation patterns is characteristic of an anticyclone or high pressure in the Southern Hemisphere?
A. air flowing outward, counterclockwise B. air flowing outward, clockwise C. air flowing inward, counterclockwise D. air flowing inward, clockwise