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What you are talking about is the Coriolis effect. In the northern hemisphere currents rotate in a clockwise rotation and in the Southern Hemisphere current rotation is in an anti clockwise rotation.
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What do you do if you see a tsunami coming?
Run for your life in the opposite direction!!
How do you use newton's third law to explain squid movement?
3rd Law: For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction. Squid example: A squid squirts water in one direction, the squid moves in a direction opposite the squirted water.
What is the main stimuli affecting the growth of the shoot of the plant?
light, positive phototropism and towards the light gravity, negative geotropism and grow in opposite direction to gravity NOT WATER
Does spinning water always spin in the same direction?
Does spinning water always spin in the same direction?
What is the opposite of swamp?
Possibly desert.
What happens as these currents move up in opposite directions?
the water or fluid will be moving the opposite direction
How do you determine the upstream of a river?
Water always flows down a river, so upstream is the opposite direction from the direction in which the water flows.
What is cuurrent?
Not sure what a suface cuurrent is. In deep water, there often are currents that flow in different directions at different depths. A surface current will flow in one direction, near the surface, while there will be a current flowing in the opposite direction deeper down.
A ridge situated so that water on one side flows in one direction and water on the other side flows in the opposite direction?
Divide
What is suface cuurrent?
Not sure what a suface cuurrent is. In deep water, there often are currents that flow in different directions at different depths. A surface current will flow in one direction, near the surface, while there will be a current flowing in the opposite direction deeper down.
Why direction of water and flue gases are opposite in bacock and wilcox boiler?
because of heat transfer rate is better
What do you do if you see a tsunami coming?
Run for your life in the opposite direction!!
What force is it when a squid expels water out its back end?
The opposite direction of the water it moved.
Which direction does water flow down the drain?
Water is more affected by the surface geometry of the fixture than the hemisphere. Snopes gives a nicely detailed explanation at the link below of the urban legend that claims drains drain opposite on different sides of the equator.
If you walk on s log floating water the log moves in opposite direction explain why this happens?
Newton's third law of motion: every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Does water at the equator in a sink just drop down the drain with no turning?
Yes, but you can cause it to turn in either direction by stirring the water. Then it will continue to turn on its own. You can also force the water to turn in the opposite direction in either hemisphere by doing the same thing.
Does water in toilets in Australia flow in the opposite direction than in Kentucky?
Although the Coriolis Effect would tend to influence an opposite direction of flow, the actual effect is immeasurably small on the scale of household plumbing. Other, mostly random factors mean that the flow could be in either direction, or alternately in both.
