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- 1. Multiple Choice
Objects in the NORTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?
Left
Up
Down
Right
- 2. Multiple Choice
Objects in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?
Left
Up
Down
Right
- 3. Multiple Choice
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
- 4. Multiple Choice
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
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the main cause of the Coriolis Effect?
earth’s rotation
trade winds
the sun and ocean
temperature
- 6. Multiple Choice
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
- 7. Multiple Choice
Earth's Rotation causes all ______ and ocean currents except on the equator, to be deflected from the paths they would take if Earth did not rotate.
air
water
winds
sunlight
- 8. Multiple Choice
The _________ of moving objects from a straight path due to Earth's rotation is called the Coriolis Effect.
reflection
deflection
refraction
attraction
- 9. Multiple Choice
The purpose of spinning the tray with water and food coloring in yesterday's lab was to symbolize?
Earth's revolution
Earth's rotation
Earth's axis
Earth's surface
- 10. Multiple Choice
If Earth did not rotate, then all of the winds and ocean currents would not circulate around the Earth.
True
False
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