Weather Vocab 1

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Image depicts:

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El Nino event

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The picture represents a(n) ___ event.

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La Nina

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El Nino occurs when tropical ocean surface waters are warmer in which ocean?

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Pacific

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La Niña is characterized by a cooling of the Western Pacific Ocean.

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a cooling

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What is weather?

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The state of the atmosphere at any particular time.

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Climate:

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Pattern of weather in a place over many years.

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Surface currents are mainly caused by

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Wind

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Deep Ocean currents result from:

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Density

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Coriolis Effect is caused by:

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Earth rotating on its axis.

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Coriolis Effect: Water in the northern hemisphere moves

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clockwise

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