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Planetary Geology #7 Coriolis Effect
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Planetary Geology #7 Coriolis Effect

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Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12

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Short Description: By tracing an object as it moves across the surface of a rotating and a non-rotating model, students will demonstrate the true and apparent motions of objects as they move across the real Earth. This apparent motion is known as the Coriolis effect.

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