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Do the currents around Hawaii flow clockwise or counterclockwise?
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Do currents around Hawaii flow clockwise or counterclockwise?
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Did the Israelites march clockwise or counterclockwise around Jericho?
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What Causes the wind and surface currents to turn?
The coriolis effect. The spinning of the Earth on it's axis necessarily produces a rotation in wind and water currents on the Earth's surface due to the fact that the equator moves at a faster rate of speed than any points approaching the poles. This creates a counterclockwise rotation of currents in the northern hemisphere and clockwise rotation south of the equator. It also creates a deflection of currents to the right north of the equator and a deflection to the left south of the equator, essentially causing the currents to deflect in a clockwise direction north of the equator and counterclockwise south of the equator (opposite their localized spin). Thus the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic currents around the Atlantic Ocean move clockwise around the ocean, yet hurricanes in the North Atlantic spin counterclockwise locally. Other factors such as change in surface heat (sea/land breezes) and gravity (sun and moon creating tidal currents) also exist.
What is a sentence for counterclockwise?
She turned around counter-clockwise.In Britain, we don't say "counter-clockwise". We say "anti-clockwise".
What is the direction around a high pressure system?
clockwise north of the equator and counterclockwise in the south.
Do all planets orbit counterclockwise around the sun?
All of the planets in our solar system orbit the sun in the same direction, but at varying speeds depending on distance from the sun. If looked at from above the earths north pole, they would go counter clockwise.
A diagram to show the wind direction aroungd high pressure system?
Air circulates clockwise around a high pressure system in the northern hemisphere, counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
Does the blood flow clockwise or counterclockwise?
the oxygen-rich blood coming from the lungs enters the left atrium moves in anticlockwise to be distributed in the body
Does the moon orbit counterclockwise or clockwise?
Counter-clockwise. All the planets are in counter-clockwise orbits around the Sun, and all but Venus and Uranus have counter-clockwise rotation (as seen from above the ecliptic plane). The moon is tidally-locked with the Earth so that its rotational and orbital periods are the same.
Do high pressure systems move clockwise or counterclockwise?
In the northern hemisphere wind blow around high-pressure systems in a clockwise direction. In the southern hemisphere, the wind blow is in the opposite (anticlockwise) direction.
In the southern hemisphere hurricanes rotate?
Hurricanes spin clockwise in the Southern hemisphere. Hurricanes in the Northern hemisphere spin counterclockwise. Hurricanes in the Southern hemisphere are called cyclones.
What are cyclones and anti cyclones?
A Cyclone is an air moving in a spiral around a large scale low-pressure area, counterclockwise if it is in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. Cyclones typically bring stormy weather. Anticyclone is an air moving in a spiral around a high-pressure area, clockwise if it is in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise if it is in the southern hemisphere. Anticyclones typically bring fair, sunny weather.
