--- title: Winds, monsoons and ocean currents — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / Winds, monsoons and ocean currents # Winds, monsoons and ocean currents The 16 questions of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 88 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t1/) — Why does a beach often get a breeze from the sea in the afternoon? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t2/) — My cousin swears the toilet flushes backwards in Australia cos of the Earth spinning. True? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t3/) — In the game, a fleet sails from Calicut to Aden any month you like. What did real ships do? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t4/) — Ships came home from the Americas to Spain by a more northern route than they went out. Why? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t5/) — Off Peru the fishing is some of the richest in the world, yet the shore is desert. Why? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t6/) — ugh we've been stuck in the doldrums for a week, no wind. where are we prob — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t7/) — What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t8/) — Why does floating plastic collect in the middle of the North Pacific? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t9/) — Dutch ships raced from the Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies far in the south. Why there? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t10/) — Ben says the wind blows from low pressure to high pressure. Right? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t11/) — Big storms north of the equator spin anticlockwise and south of it clockwise. What causes the difference? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t12/) — If you sailed with a gyre in the North Atlantic, which way would you be carried round? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which mariners trading across the Indian Ocean customarily remained in port for several months. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the trade winds? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the deflection of moving air by the rotation of the Earth. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/e4/) — It is given that a current of cold water flows towards the equator along the western coast of a continent. Ascertain which current this description fits. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [21. Climate zones and why they are where they are](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/) - next →: [23. Weather, storms and the changing climate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/)