What is the Coriolis Effect? How does the Coriolis Effect help determine the global pattern of winds?
What will be an ideal response?
The Coriolis Effect is the apparent tendency for a fluid (air or water) moving across Earth's surface to be deflected from its straight-line path. The Coriolis Effect applies to any object moving on a rotating body. East-west movements of surface winds are the result of the Coriolis Effect.
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Refer to the above surface weather map.
Between which of the following points is an occluded front positioned?
A. between 3 and 4 B. between 2 and 3 C. between 2 and 5 D. between 1 and 2
What is the temperature of the parcel at 3000 m? What is the maximum specific humidity at that temperature? What is the difference in specific humidity in grams per kilogram between the parcel when it was on the ground and at 3000 m?
What will be an ideal response?
Use your knowledge of plate boundaries to answer whether a volcano is likely or unlikely to form at the location of the red triangle.
A) Likely
B) Unlikely
Soil with approximately equal amounts of sand, silt, and clay along with a generous amount of organic matter is called
A. caliche B. loam C. inorganic D. humus