Why does the Coriolis effect influence ocean currents more significantly than a household fountain?

💡 Explanation

The Coriolis effect deflects moving objects due to Earth’s rotation; because the displacement scales with distance, it greatly influences currents traversing thousands of kilometers, therefore large bodies of water exhibit greater deflection, rather than small, localized ones.

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