The horse latitudes are named this because ships would get stranded from lack of wind and would throw the horses overboard to conserve food and water for the crew.

EARTH SCIENCE

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A	oceanography
B	meteorology
C	astronomy
D	geology

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Unable to sail and resupply due to lack of wind, crews often ran out of drinking water. To conserve scarce water, sailors on these ships would sometimes throw the horses they were transporting overboard. Thus, the phrase ‘horse latitudes’ was born.

Detailed explanation-2: -As the air moves towards the mid-latitudes on both sides of the equator, it cools and sinks. This creates a ridge of high pressure near the 30th parallel in both hemispheres.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the air rises, it cools, causing persistent bands of showers and storms around the Earth’s midsection. The rising air mass finally subsides in what is known as the horse latitudes, where the air moves downward toward Earth’s surface.

Detailed explanation-4: -Also called Horse Latitude. The air is constantly moving from high pressure to low stress. So the winds from the tropical region are blowing towards the Equator as Trade Winds and other winds are blowing towards Sub-Polar Low Pressure like Westerlies.

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