Q: What effect is caused by air moving over the earth's surface as it spins?


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

Earth is spinning as air moves over its surface. This causes the Coriolis effect. Winds blow on a diagonal over the surface, instead of due north or south. From which direction do the northern trade winds blow?.

 Choices:

- pruett effect

- mazinho effect

- dopple effect

- coriolis effect


A:
coriolis effect