A research team releases a weather balloon on a windy day, and it travels directly toward a large mountain. What will most likely happen to the balloon's path as it gets very close to the mountain?

It will be forced to rise in altitude.

It will stop moving completely.

It will be pushed down toward the ground.

It will pass through a natural tunnel in the mountain.

The process of wind being forced up and over a mountain demonstrates a direct interaction between which two of Earth's systems?

The hydrosphere and the biosphere

The atmosphere and the geosphere

The geosphere and the cryosphere

The atmosphere and the hydrosphere

The types of minerals in its rock

Its solid, non-porous structure

The mountain's cold temperature pushes the warmer air up.

The mountain is a solid barrier, leaving 'up' as the only available path for the air.

The wind is naturally attracted to higher altitudes.

The Earth's rotation spins the air upwards along the mountain slope.