Instead of the air flowing straight out of a high pressure system, it spirals out in a clockwise direction. The cause of the clockwise spiraling motion is:

A) pressure gradient force.
B) centripetal force.
C) inertia.
D) Coriolis force.
E) turbulence.


D

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