Coriolis Effect and Tornadoes

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun
• Earth rotating on its axis
• The tides
• Gravity

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You're running on a treadmill and going at a constant speed. What will happen to you if the treadmill's speed suddenly increases significantly?

• You'll surge forward.

• You'll be flung backwards off the treadmill.

• Nothing--this is a trick Q.

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Is this cyclonic storm occurring in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?

• Northern

• Southern

• There is no way to tell just from the picture.

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A person standing still at the Equator is moving faster than a person standing still at the North Pole.

• True

• False

How does the Coriolis Effect influence hurricanes and cyclones

• determines how powerful they will be
• determines where they will go
• determines where they form
• determines the direction of the wind rotation

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Cyclonic storms like hurricanes rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.

• True

• False

• Only Sometimes

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Draw a horizontal line for the equator.

Draw four arrows on the globe showing how winds are deflecting.

--traveling north from the equator

--traveling south from the equator

--traveling north from the South Pole

--traveling south from the North Pole

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A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from the base of a thunderstorm.

• Funnel Cloud

• Tornado

• Condensation Funnel

• Thunderstorm

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A scale of wind damage intensity in which wind speeds are inferred from an analysis of wind damage.

• Richter Scale

• Enhanced Fujita scale

• Wind speed scale

• Damage indicator scale

• DEFCON

Variation in wind speed and/or direction over a short distance.

• Conduction

• Severe thunderstorm

• Low pressure

• Wind Shear

• Weather front

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