Coriolis & Convection

What does the Coriolis Effect impact?

• Wind Speed

• Wind Direction

• Small Scale Objects

• Bodies of Water

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8.10A

What does the Coriolis Effect help to directly develop in circular motion?

• Tornadoes

• Thunderstorms

• Hurricanes

• Floods

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8.10A

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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8.10A

What does heat do when convection currents are moving?

• Sinks

• Rises

• Stays in place

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8.10A

Which picture shows material that is more dense?

• The picture of the left

• The picture on the right

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8.10A

In convection, WARM air (a)  

• Rises
• Sinks

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8.10A

In convection, COOL air (a)  

• Rises
• Sinks

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8.10A

Stream like movements of water

(a)  

• Ocean Currents
• Continental Deflections

• Coriolis Effect

• Upwelling

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8.10A

What is the Coriolis Effect and how does it effect global winds?

• Curving of winds due to rotation of earth curves wind counterclockwise in Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere
• Movement of ocean currents caused by earth rotation' counterclockwise in Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in Southern Hemisphere
• curve of global winds caused by global rotation clockwise in Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in Southern Hemisphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

As you go higher in the stratosphere, the temperature _______________.

• decreases
• increases
• stays the same