QUIZ

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1. In what direction to fluids moving in the northern hemisphere deflect?

2. As air warms, what movement does make?

3. What part of the hurricane is the calmest on land but the worst on the ocean?

4. What are "Old Sow" and Corryvreckan"?

5. What are tornados occurring over water known as?

6. What term is used for a gradient of some aspect of the water as one goes deeper?

7. What is the effect known as that causes fluids to deflect when they travel on a sphere?

8. What is the water that rises up onto the shore as the result of a storm known as?

9. In what city in the U.S. was the worst ocean related disaster?

10. What do "Hadley", "Ferrell" and "polar" refer to in meteorology (the study of weather)