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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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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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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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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wind

• warm, less dense air rises

• cool, dense air sinks

• large circular patterns of moving air

• movement of air cause by differences in air pressure

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In the Northern Hemisphere, in a large area of LOW PRESSURE such as a large weather system or hurricane winds blow toward the center of low pressure. As they do this they are deflected right. Low pressure systems in the northern hemisphere rotate .....

• harder than in the Southern Hemisphere

• counterclockwise

• clockwise

• less than in the Southern Hemisphere

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The Coriolis Effect affects the way our toilet flush.

• True

• False

• Nobody knows

The Coriolis Effect is not visible in small amounts of fluids.

• True

• False

• Nobody knows

Which of the following does the Coriolis effect, effect?

• Oceans currents

• Toilets

• Urinals

• Global Winds

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