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What Causes Storms To Swirl In Opposite Directions In The Northern And Southern Hemispheres Crossword Clue

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noun

• (physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced

52%7 Line separating northern and southern hemispheres
noun

• an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles

• a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts

47%9 They are opposite in the Northern and Southern hemispheres
noun

• either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator

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