Question

What is the overall effect of Earth's global atmospheric circulation?

A. It moves heat from the equator toward the poles.
B. It creates mountain, sea, land, and valley breezes.
C. It forms hurricanes in tropical areas near the ITCZ.
D. It causes the atmosphere to rotate from west to east.

Answer 1

D. It causes the atmosphere to rotate from west to east.

Answer 2

Out of the given options, the overall effect of Earth's global atmospheric circulation can be said to be that it creates mountain, sea, land, and valley breezes.

Step-by-step explanation:

• It is due to the circulation of the atmosphere, that different packets or cells of air are formed between different latitudes.

• The ITCZ is apparently free from hurricanes or cyclones because the Coriolis effect at ITCZ is zero.

• The atmospheric circulation takes place in packets. Thus, it does not directly deliver the heat from the equator to the poles.