Hemispheres

If you are creating a drawing/painting, which brain hemisphere are you using the most? (Creativity)

• Left Hemisphere

• Right Hemisphere

• Cerebellum

What divides a globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• Equator

• a line of longitude

• Prime Meridian

• International Date Line

Which hemisphere is shown above the equator?

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• Northern Hemisphere

Which hemisphere is highlighted in blue?

• Western

• Eastern

• Southern

Which hemisphere is highlighted in blue?

• Northern

• Southern

• Western

A _______________ is exactly half of the earth.

• Equator

• Hemisphere

• Tropic of Cancer

• Arctic Circle

What divides a globe into Eastern and Western Hemispheres?

• a line of latitude

• equator

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Capricorn

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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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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