What causes the Coriolis effect?

winds spinning off the equator

the rotation of Earth on its axis

the different air movements north and south of the equator

the friction that slows down winds near Earth's surface

A stream begins at an elevation of 1000 feet and flows a distance of 200 miles to the ocean. what is the average gradient?

In a geocentric model of the universe, the planets and the sun move around a central Earth. True False

A bowling ball is launched off the top of a 240-foot tall building. The height of the bowling ball above the ground t seconds after being launched is s (t) = - 16t 2 + 32t + 240 feet above the ground.

A diver on a diving board is undergoing simple harmonic motion. Her mass is 55.0 kg and the period of her motion is 0.800 s. The next diver is a male whose period of simple harmonic oscillation is 1.05 s.

A 2 kg block is on a horizontal surface. A horizontal force is applied by a person to the block to pull it on the surface with an acceleration of 2 m/s. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the surface is 0.3.

MOST high schools teach biology, then chemistry, then physics. What do you see as some of the disadvantages of the traditional sequence to both students and teachers.

If you break a bar magnet in half, each half

If a forklift raises a 76-kg load a distance of 2.5 m, about how much work has it done?

When a fork is placed in a hot piece of lasagna, thermal energy is transferred up the fork by ...

Levi observed properties of four different waves and recorded observations about each one in his chart.