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Which causes the wind flow from the horse latitudes to the doldrums to be deflected?

Question 1 of 27070

Which causes the wind flow from the horse latitudes to the doldrums to be deflected?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Trade winds between the horse latitudes and the doldrums • How Earth’s rotation affects moving air masses • Difference between a force that changes direction vs conditions that create the pressure belts

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: which option actually bends or deflects the path of air that is already moving, rather than just causing it to move? • Consider what specifically happens to air moving from higher-pressure horse latitudes toward the low-pressure doldrums near the equator. • Think about global wind patterns: what physical effect explains why winds don’t blow straight north–south on a rotating planet?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice is a deflecting mechanism, not a source of pressure or a type of wind pattern. • Separate causes of motion (pressure differences) from causes of directional change (apparent forces due to rotation). • Verify which option is a named global effect that acts on all moving air and water on a rotating Earth.

Question 1 of 27070

Which causes the wind flow from the horse latitudes to the doldrums to be deflected?

The Coriolis force

Differing atmospheric pressures

The mid-latitude, semi-permanent high

The prevailing westerlies

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