Q: What effect causes global winds to blow on a diagonal over the earth's surface?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Global winds occur in belts around the globe. They are caused by unequal heating of Earth’s surface. The Coriolis effect causes global winds to blow on a diagonal over the surface. Unequal heating also causes jet streams high in the troposphere.

 Choices:

- dopler effect

- resonant effect

- centrifugal effect

- coriolis effect


A:
coriolis effect