Global winds & Coriolis effect

Objects in the NORTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?

• Left

• Up

• Down

• Right

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Objects in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?

• Left

• Up

• Down

• Right

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Westerlies blow in which direction?

• West to East

• North to South

• South to North

• East to West

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Easterlies blow in which direction?

• East to West

• North to South

• South to North

• West to East

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The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

• The wind blowing

• Earth's gravity pulling things down

• The rotation of the Earth

• The pull of the Moon

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Winds blow from areas of what to what?

• High temperature to high pressure

• Low temperature to high pressure

• High pressure to low temperature

• Low temperature to high temperature

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A polar air mass will have what kind of air in it?

• Warm

• Cold

• Humid

• Dry

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what is the coriolis effect?

• change in location of warm and cold surface water every 2-7 years

• tendency of objects moving large distances on Earth’s surface to bend to the right in the northern hemisphere & to the left in the southern hemisphere

• winds in northern Indian ocean that blow from the southwest in the summer & from the northeast in winter

• two layers of horizontal winds moving in opposite directions

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what is the main cause of the coriolis effect?

• earth’s rotation

• trade winds

• the sun and ocean

• temperature

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The Coriolis effect causes ___________.

• the Earth to rotate on its axis

• earthquakes

• global winds to move in a curved path instead of a straight line

• the Earth to revolve around the sun

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