Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Planet Earth
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
The objective of this exercise is to use a Lazy Susan to demonstrate that an object experiences the Coriolis effect – an apparent deflection of its path from a straight line – when moving from the equator to the poles over the surface of a rotating planet.
Coriolis Effect [184KB PDF file]
This activity is part of the Planetary Geology Guide.