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Question 1Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

On a standard topographic map, closely spaced contour lines indicate which terrain condition?

  1. A flat plain
  2. A steep slope Correct answer.
  3. A perennial stream
  4. A depression

Explanation

Contour lines connect points of equal elevation, so the horizontal distance between them shows how quickly elevation changes. When lines are packed tightly, elevation rises or falls over a short distance, which defines a steep slope. Widely spaced lines indicate gentle gradients.

Question 2Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which line of latitude marks the boundary between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

  1. The Tropic of Cancer
  2. The equator Correct answer.
  3. The prime meridian
  4. The International Date Line

Explanation

The equator is the line of 0 degrees latitude and divides Earth into northern and southern halves. The tropics mark the limits of the sun's overhead passage, while the other two choices are lines of longitude.

Question 3Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A map is drawn at a scale of 1:50,000. A straight road measures 6 centimeters on the map. What is the road's actual length on the ground?

  1. 30 kilometers
  2. 0.3 kilometers
  3. 300 kilometers
  4. 3 kilometers Correct answer.

Explanation

A representative fraction of 1:50,000 means one unit on the map equals 50,000 of the same units on the ground. Six centimeters times 50,000 equals 300,000 centimeters, which converts to 3 kilometers.

Question 4Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which projection preserves true compass direction from a single central point, making it useful for navigation?

  1. Goode homolosine projection
  2. Mercator projection
  3. Robinson projection
  4. Azimuthal projection Correct answer.

Explanation

Azimuthal projections are constructed around a central point and preserve correct bearings from that point to any other location. This property makes them valuable for plotting routes radiating from one hub. Mercator preserves direction between any two points but distorts area severely.

Question 5Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A geographer overlays a layer of census tract data on a layer of floodplain boundaries in a geographic information system. Which capability of GIS does this most directly illustrate?

  1. Cartographic generalization through simplification
  2. Spatial analysis through overlay Correct answer.
  3. Remote sensing through imagery
  4. Global positioning through satellites

Explanation

Overlay analysis combines two or more spatial data layers to reveal relationships between them, such as which populated tracts fall inside a floodplain. GIS supports this by aligning layers to a common coordinate system. The other choices describe data acquisition or map design rather than layer combination.

Question 6Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which term describes the process by which a cultural trait spreads outward from a source region to nearby areas?

  1. Cultural lag
  2. Acculturation
  3. Relocation diffusion
  4. Expansion diffusion Correct answer.

Explanation

Expansion diffusion occurs when a phenomenon spreads through a population from a hearth, growing outward. Relocation diffusion instead moves the trait with migrating people. The distinction matters because expansion can reach people who never moved.

Question 7Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A country's population pyramid shows a broad base and a narrow top. Which conclusion is best supported?

  1. The population is aging rapidly
  2. The population has low fertility and long life expectancy
  3. The population has high birth rates and short life expectancy Correct answer.
  4. The population is experiencing net out-migration of youth

Explanation

A wide base reflects a large share of young children, which indicates high fertility. The narrow top shows few elderly people, consistent with shorter average life expectancy. Aging populations produce the opposite shape, with a narrow base and a wide top.

Question 8Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which stage of the demographic transition model is characterized by high birth rates and rapidly falling death rates, producing the fastest natural increase?

  1. Stage 1
  2. Stage 3
  3. Stage 2 Correct answer.
  4. Stage 4

Explanation

In Stage 2, improved food supply and medicine lower death rates while birth rates remain high, so the gap between them is widest and population grows fastest. Stage 3 brings falling birth rates, and Stage 4 brings low rates on both sides.

Question 9Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which measure best expresses the number of people per unit of arable land in a densely farmed region?

  1. Physiological density
  2. Agricultural density Correct answer.
  3. Crude birth rate
  4. Arithmetic density

Explanation

Agricultural density divides the number of farmers by the area of farmland, isolating the pressure of farming population on cultivated land. Physiological density divides total population by arable land, and arithmetic density uses total land area.

Question 10Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which push factor most directly explains rural-to-urban migration in rapidly industrializing countries?

  1. Higher urban housing costs
  2. Improved rural healthcare
  3. Strict urban immigration controls
  4. Mechanization of agriculture reducing farm labor demand Correct answer.

Explanation

Push factors drive people away from a place of origin. When machines replace farm labor, rural workers lose livelihoods and move toward cities seeking employment. The other options either attract people or discourage movement.

Question 11Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which boundary type forms where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other?

  1. Transform boundary Correct answer.
  2. Subduction zone
  3. Convergent boundary
  4. Divergent boundary

Explanation

At a transform boundary, plates move laterally against each other without creating or destroying crust, producing strike-slip faults and frequent earthquakes. Convergent and divergent boundaries involve crust being consumed or created, respectively.

Question 12Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which climate classification is typical of a region with warm, humid conditions year-round, high rainfall, and dense broadleaf evergreen forest?

  1. Humid continental climate
  2. Mediterranean climate
  3. Tropical rainforest climate Correct answer.
  4. Tundra climate

Explanation

Tropical rainforest climates occur near the equator, where consistent solar heating and rising moist air produce heavy rainfall every month. The constant warmth and moisture support dense evergreen broadleaf forest. The other climates have distinct seasonal limits on temperature or moisture.

Question 13Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

The rain shadow effect explains which pattern?

  1. Increased rainfall at higher latitudes
  2. Uniform rainfall on both sides of a mountain range
  3. Heavy rainfall on windward slopes and arid conditions on leeward slopes Correct answer.
  4. Reduced rainfall near the equator

Explanation

Moist air rises over a mountain barrier, cools, and releases precipitation on the windward side. As the air descends the leeward side it warms and holds more moisture, leaving that side dry. This produces sharp moisture contrasts across a single range.

Question 14Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which human activity contributes most directly to soil salinization in arid irrigated regions?

  1. Crop rotation with legumes
  2. Terracing of hillsides
  3. Over-irrigation without adequate drainage Correct answer.
  4. No-till plowing

Explanation

In dry climates, irrigation water dissolves salts that remain behind when the water evaporates. Without drainage to flush them away, salts accumulate in the root zone and reduce fertility. The other practices generally conserve or improve soil.

Question 15Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which statement best describes a primate city within a national urban system?

  1. It is more than twice as large as the next largest city and dominates national functions Correct answer.
  2. It is the oldest settlement in the country
  3. It is a city with fewer than 100,000 residents
  4. It is located exactly at the country's geographic center

Explanation

A primate city is disproportionately large relative to the second-ranked city and concentrates political, economic, and cultural functions. This dominance often reflects centralized development and can produce regional inequality. The other options describe location, age, or size thresholds unrelated to primacy.

Question 16Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A country's population is 40 million, its land area is 500,000 square kilometers, and 200,000 square kilometers are arable. What is its physiological density?

  1. 8 people per square kilometer
  2. 20 people per square kilometer
  3. 200 people per square kilometer Correct answer.
  4. 80 people per square kilometer

Explanation

Physiological density divides total population by arable land area. Forty million divided by 200,000 square kilometers equals 200 people per square kilometer of farmland. Using total land area instead would give the arithmetic density.

Question 17Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which concept describes the set of beliefs, values, and practices shared by a group and transmitted across generations?

  1. Culture Correct answer.
  2. Ethnicity
  3. Race
  4. Nationality

Explanation

Culture refers to learned, shared behavior and meaning, including language, religion, customs, and technology. Race is a socially constructed category based on physical traits, ethnicity relates to ancestry and identity, and nationality refers to legal membership in a state.

Question 18Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which language family includes English, Spanish, and Hindi?

  1. Afro-Asiatic
  2. Indo-European Correct answer.
  3. Sino-Tibetan
  4. Niger-Congo

Explanation

Indo-European is a large language family whose branches include Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Iranian, containing English, Spanish, and Hindi respectively. The other families have separate origins and distributions.

Question 19Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

The Green Revolution of the mid-twentieth century most significantly increased crop yields through which combination of changes?

  1. Mechanized fishing and aquaculture expansion
  2. Organic farming and reduced irrigation
  3. High-yield seed varieties, irrigation, and chemical fertilizers Correct answer.
  4. Slash-and-burn cultivation and shifting fields

Explanation

The Green Revolution combined improved cereal varieties with irrigation, fertilizers, and pesticides to raise yields, especially of wheat and rice. These inputs worked together, and their adoption varied by region and farm size. The other options describe different agricultural systems.

Question 20Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which factor best explains why manufacturing initially concentrated in regions with coal and iron ore deposits during industrialization?

  1. Those regions had the lowest population densities
  2. Those regions had no access to waterways
  3. Access to bulky raw materials reduced transport costs Correct answer.
  4. Those regions had the mildest climates

Explanation

Early heavy industry used large quantities of coal and ore, and transporting those bulky inputs was expensive. Locating near the deposits minimized transport costs, which is a classic example of raw-material orientation. Modern transport and technology have since loosened this constraint.

Question 21Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which sector of the economy includes banking, insurance, and tourism?

  1. Quaternary sector
  2. Tertiary sector Correct answer.
  3. Secondary sector
  4. Primary sector

Explanation

The tertiary sector provides services rather than extracting or manufacturing goods, and finance, insurance, and tourism are service activities. The primary sector extracts raw materials and the secondary sector processes them. The quaternary sector involves knowledge and information work.

Question 22Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A geographer wants to show the percentage of a country's workforce employed in each economic sector using a single graphic. Which cartographic tool is most appropriate?

  1. A dot density map
  2. An isoline map
  3. A pie chart Correct answer.
  4. A graduated symbol map

Explanation

A pie chart displays parts of a whole as proportional slices, so it suits shares such as the percentage of workers in each sector that sum to 100. Graduated symbols and dot density maps show absolute quantities, and isolines connect points of equal value.

Question 23Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which factor most strongly influences the difference in average annual temperature between Quito, near the equator, and Reykjavik, at high latitude?

  1. Proximity to ocean currents only
  2. Solar angle and day length variation Correct answer.
  3. Local soil composition
  4. Longitude relative to the prime meridian

Explanation

Latitude determines the angle at which solar radiation strikes the surface and the seasonal range of daylight. Near the equator the sun is high year-round, producing consistently warm temperatures, while high latitudes receive low-angle radiation and long winter darkness.

Question 24Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A map uses a choropleth shading scheme for population density by county. Which limitation most affects interpretation of this map?

  1. Choropleth maps cannot display numerical data
  2. Choropleth maps require three-dimensional symbols
  3. Large rural counties appear uniformly dense even where population is concentrated in one town Correct answer.
  4. Choropleth maps show only point locations

Explanation

Choropleth maps assume each unit is internally uniform, so averaging a large county into a single shade hides internal variation. A county with one dense city and vast empty land will be shaded as if evenly populated. This ecological fallacy risk is a key limitation of the method.

Question 25Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which process best explains the formation of a deep ocean trench adjacent to a volcanic island arc?

  1. Glacial erosion of the continental shelf
  2. Subduction of an oceanic plate beneath another plate Correct answer.
  3. Deposition of sediment by longshore drift
  4. Seafloor spreading at a mid-ocean ridge

Explanation

Where an oceanic plate descends beneath another plate, the bending and melting create a deep trench on the descending side and a volcanic arc on the overriding side. This pairing is a hallmark of convergent plate boundaries. The other processes build or reshape crust rather than consume it.

Question 26Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which type of map projection preserves true compass bearings from a single central point, making it useful for navigation along great-circle routes?

  1. Azimuthal projection Correct answer.
  2. Mercator projection
  3. Robinson projection
  4. Conic projection

Explanation

An azimuthal (planar) projection is constructed around a central point and preserves true direction from that point, so straight lines radiate as great-circle bearings. This makes it valuable for air and sea navigation centered on a hub. Mercator preserves bearings between any two points but distorts area severely at high latitudes.

Question 27Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A geographer overlays a soil map, a slope map, and a land-use map to identify areas suitable for a new vineyard. Which geographic technique does this best illustrate?

  1. Qualitative fieldwork
  2. Remote sensing classification
  3. Spatial analysis using GIS layers Correct answer.
  4. Mental mapping

Explanation

Overlaying multiple thematic layers to identify areas meeting several criteria is the core operation of a geographic information system. Each layer represents a variable, and combining them supports site-suitability decisions. The other techniques involve imagery interpretation, cognitive representation, or direct observation rather than layered spatial analysis.

Question 28Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which type of region is defined by a shared functional characteristic, such as the commuting zone surrounding a metropolitan core?

  1. Functional region Correct answer.
  2. Vernacular region
  3. Perceptual region
  4. Formal region

Explanation

A functional (nodal) region is organized around a central point and defined by interactions or flows, such as commuters traveling to a city core. Its boundaries are based on the reach of that function rather than uniform traits. Formal regions share measurable characteristics, while perceptual regions exist in people's mental images.

Question 29Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which term describes the ratio between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on Earth's surface?

  1. Scale Correct answer.
  2. Graticule
  3. Projection
  4. Legend

Explanation

Map scale expresses the relationship between measured map distance and actual ground distance, whether as a fraction, a verbal statement, or a graphic bar. It allows a user to convert measurements on the map into real-world distances. Projection, legend, and graticule serve different cartographic functions.

Question 30Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A country experiences net out-migration of young adults over a decade. Which change in its population structure is most directly expected?

  1. A sharp increase in the total fertility rate
  2. A decline in the dependency ratio
  3. A rapid expansion of the working-age population
  4. A rising share of elderly residents relative to working-age adults Correct answer.

Explanation

When young adults leave, the remaining population has proportionally fewer working-age people and more older residents, raising the old-age dependency ratio. Fertility does not necessarily rise, and the working-age population shrinks rather than expands. The overall effect is population aging through selective migration.

Question 31Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which process produces a mid-ocean ridge along a divergent plate boundary?

  1. Transform faulting where plates slide past one another
  2. Continental collision that folds and thickens crust
  3. Seafloor spreading as magma rises between separating plates Correct answer.
  4. Subduction of an oceanic plate beneath a continental plate

Explanation

At a divergent boundary, plates move apart and magma rises to fill the gap, cools, and forms new oceanic crust, building a ridge. This process, seafloor spreading, also creates new lithosphere that moves away from the ridge axis. Subduction, transform motion, and collision occur at other boundary types.

Question 32Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which factor best explains why coastal areas at the same latitude often have milder winters than inland areas?

  1. Coastal areas receive more direct solar radiation than interiors
  2. Water has a higher heat capacity and releases stored heat slowly Correct answer.
  3. Inland areas are at higher elevations on average
  4. Ocean currents always carry cold water toward coasts

Explanation

Because water heats and cools more slowly than land, oceans store summer heat and release it in winter, moderating coastal temperatures. This maritime effect reduces seasonal extremes compared with continental interiors. Solar radiation and elevation do not consistently explain the contrast, and currents vary in temperature.

Question 33Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which statement best describes the relationship between a state and a nation?

  1. A state and a nation are identical concepts with no useful distinction
  2. A state is a political unit with sovereignty, while a nation is a group sharing identity and culture Correct answer.
  3. A nation is a political unit recognized by international law, while a state is a cultural group
  4. A state always contains exactly one nation

Explanation

A state is a sovereign political-territorial unit with recognized borders and government, whereas a nation is a community sharing identity, often including culture or language. When the two coincide, the result is a nation-state, but many states are multinational. The concepts are related but analytically distinct.

Question 34Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which measure best summarizes how evenly a population is distributed across a country's territory?

  1. Arithmetic density
  2. Agricultural density
  3. Population distribution pattern Correct answer.
  4. Physiological density

Explanation

Population distribution describes how inhabitants are spread across an area, capturing clustering and dispersion rather than a single average. Density measures, by contrast, report people per unit area and can hide unevenness. Distribution is therefore the appropriate summary of evenness across territory.

Question 35Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which factor most directly drives the formation of a megacity in a developing country?

  1. Government resettlement of urban residents into rural areas
  2. Declining national birth rates and out-migration from cities
  3. A shift of employment from services to subsistence farming
  4. Rapid rural-to-urban migration combined with natural increase Correct answer.

Explanation

Megacities grow when large inflows of rural migrants join high natural increase in urban areas, pushing populations past ten million. Push factors in rural areas and pull factors such as employment draw migrants to cities. The other options describe processes that would reduce urban populations.

Question 36Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which cultural process is illustrated when a migrant group adopts the dress and language of the host society while retaining its cuisine and religious holidays?

  1. Acculturation Correct answer.
  2. Cultural relativism
  3. Diffusion
  4. Assimilation

Explanation

Acculturation occurs when a group adopts some traits of a dominant culture while keeping elements of its own, producing a blended outcome. Assimilation would imply near-total absorption and loss of distinct traits. Retained cuisine and holidays show that full assimilation has not occurred.

Question 37Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

Which language pattern is most consistent with a former colonial territory where an official European language coexists with many local languages?

  1. A lingua franca used for administration alongside regional vernaculars Correct answer.
  2. A single monolingual population with no language variation
  3. The complete disappearance of indigenous languages
  4. Uniform use of one language family across all social classes

Explanation

Colonial legacies often leave a European language as an official or administrative lingua franca while local languages persist in daily life and regional settings. This creates a layered multilingual pattern rather than uniformity. Indigenous languages typically persist, though often under pressure.

Question 38Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A city's downtown has high land values and tall buildings, while density declines steadily toward the outskirts. Which model best captures this pattern?

  1. Concentric zone model Correct answer.
  2. Multiple nuclei model
  3. Sector model
  4. Galactic city model

Explanation

The concentric zone model describes rings of land use radiating outward from a central business district, with density and land value declining outward. The sector model emphasizes wedge-shaped corridors, and the multiple nuclei model posits several centers. The galactic city model describes decentralized edge cities rather than a single dense core.

Question 39Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A country's population is 30 million, and 150,000 square kilometers of its 600,000 square kilometers are arable. Which value is its physiological density?

  1. 5 people per square kilometer
  2. 20 people per square kilometer
  3. 50 people per square kilometer
  4. 200 people per square kilometer Correct answer.

Explanation

Physiological density divides total population by arable land area: 30,000,000 divided by 150,000 equals 200 people per square kilometer of arable land. This measure shows pressure on farmland rather than on total territory. Using total area instead would yield arithmetic density.

Question 40Geography Literacy and Geographic Concepts

A geographer compares two countries with identical arithmetic density but very different physiological densities. Which conclusion is best supported?

  1. Both countries have identical pressure on farmland
  2. Arithmetic density cannot be computed for either country
  3. The country with lower physiological density has more total population
  4. The country with higher physiological density has less arable land per person Correct answer.

Explanation

Physiological density divides population by arable land, so a higher value means more people share each unit of farmland, indicating greater pressure on cultivable land. Identical arithmetic density only means equal people per total area. The two measures diverge precisely because arable land shares differ.

Question 41Physical Geography

Which layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer that absorbs most ultraviolet radiation?

  1. Troposphere
  2. Stratosphere Correct answer.
  3. Thermosphere
  4. Mesosphere

Explanation

The ozone layer lies within the stratosphere, roughly 15 to 35 km above the surface, where ozone molecules absorb the bulk of incoming ultraviolet radiation. This absorption warms the stratosphere and creates its characteristic temperature inversion. Weather phenomena occur below it in the troposphere.

Question 42Physical Geography

The imaginary line at 23.5 degrees north latitude, marking the northernmost latitude where the sun can be directly overhead, is called the:

  1. Arctic Circle
  2. Tropic of Cancer Correct answer.
  3. Tropic of Capricorn
  4. Equator

Explanation

The Tropic of Cancer sits at about 23.5 degrees north latitude and marks the subsolar point during the June solstice. It is the northern boundary of the tropics. The Tropic of Capricorn is its southern counterpart.

Question 43Physical Geography

Which type of plate boundary is most directly associated with the formation of a deep ocean trench and an adjacent volcanic island arc?

  1. Convergent boundary between two continental plates
  2. Transform boundary
  3. Divergent boundary
  4. Convergent boundary between two oceanic plates Correct answer.

Explanation

When two oceanic plates converge, the denser plate subducts, forming a deep trench and generating magma that rises to build a volcanic island arc. Continental-continental convergence produces mountain belts without a trench-arc pair. Divergent and transform boundaries lack subduction.

Question 44Physical Geography

A parcel of air at 20 degrees Celsius has a relative humidity of 50 percent. If the parcel is cooled without adding or removing water vapor, at approximately what temperature will it reach saturation?

  1. 0 degrees Celsius
  2. 20 degrees Celsius
  3. 10 degrees Celsius Correct answer.
  4. 15 degrees Celsius

Explanation

Saturation occurs at the dew point, the temperature to which air must be cooled for relative humidity to reach 100 percent. Starting at 20 degrees Celsius with 50 percent humidity, the dew point is roughly 10 degrees Celsius because the saturation vapor pressure roughly halves for that temperature drop. Cooling below the dew point produces condensation.

Question 45Physical Geography

Which process is primarily responsible for the downslope movement of groundwater toward a stream channel?

  1. Gravity-driven flow through the water table Correct answer.
  2. Capillary action
  3. Transpiration from leaves
  4. Condensation in soil pores

Explanation

Groundwater moves down the hydraulic gradient, driven by gravity from higher water-table elevations toward lower ones such as stream channels. This flow eventually discharges into streams as baseflow. Capillary action moves water upward only short distances against gravity.

Question 46Physical Geography

Which soil horizon is typically the zone of accumulation where leached minerals and clays collect?

  1. C horizon
  2. B horizon Correct answer.
  3. O horizon
  4. A horizon

Explanation

The B horizon is the subsoil zone of accumulation, or illuviation, where materials leached from overlying layers are deposited. The A horizon is the zone of eluviation and organic enrichment. The C horizon consists of weathered parent material.

Question 47Physical Geography

Prevailing winds that blow from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere tropics between about 0 and 30 degrees latitude are known as the:

  1. Westerlies
  2. Polar easterlies
  3. Doldrums
  4. Northeast trade winds Correct answer.

Explanation

The northeast trade winds blow from the subtropical high toward the equatorial low, deflected to the right by the Coriolis effect in the Northern Hemisphere. Their steady nature made them valuable for sailing ships. The westerlies occur at midlatitudes.

Question 48Physical Geography

A rain shadow is best described as:

  1. The dry leeward side of a mountain range where descending air warms and dries Correct answer.
  2. A coastal fog bank caused by cold ocean currents
  3. The wet windward slope where rising air cools and condenses
  4. A region of heavy convective rainfall near the equator

Explanation

Moist air forced up a mountain's windward slope cools and precipitates, leaving the leeward side dry as descending air warms and its relative humidity falls. This creates the rain shadow effect. The windward slope is the wet side, not the shadow.

Question 49Physical Geography

Which biome is characterized by permafrost, low-growing vegetation, and a short growing season?

  1. Tropical rainforest
  2. Savanna
  3. Tundra Correct answer.
  4. Temperate deciduous forest

Explanation

Tundra ecosystems occur at high latitudes where permafrost prevents deep root growth and the growing season lasts only a few weeks. Vegetation is dominated by mosses, lichens, and low shrubs. Warmer biomes lack permafrost.

Question 50Physical Geography

The Coriolis effect causes freely moving objects in the Southern Hemisphere to be deflected to the:

  1. Right of their path of motion
  2. Center of low pressure
  3. Left of their path of motion Correct answer.
  4. North regardless of direction

Explanation

The Coriolis effect deflects moving air and water to the left of their direction of travel in the Southern Hemisphere and to the right in the Northern Hemisphere. The effect arises from Earth's rotation and increases with latitude. It influences wind and ocean current direction.