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At the Earth's surface, warm air expands and rises, creating
what is known as an area of low pressure.
Cold air is dense and sinks to the surface to create what is
known as an area of high pressure.</span>
Explanation:
It's displacement would be negative
displacement is a vector quantity.
'Backwards', we can assume, would be negative.
and forwards, positive. So going backwards would mean a negative displacement.