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Atmospheric Pressure and Winds — Question 32

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What is wind? How does it originate?

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The horizontal movement of air relative to earth's surface, produced essentially by air pressure differences from place to place and also influenced by the Coriolis force and surface friction is called Wind.

Wind originate due to uneven heating of the Earth by the Sun and due to earth's rotation.