Oceanography 1

Letter G represents a

• mid ocean ridge

• seamount

• continental rise

• trench

Sodium chloride (choose all that apply)

• KCl

• most abundant salt in the oceans

• not found in the oceans

• NaCl

Ocean currents flow ____ in the Northern Hemisphere. (choose all that apply)

• clockwise

• right

• counter clockwise

• left

This graph shows a

• thermohaline circulation

• halocline

• pycnocline

• thermocline

Use the following information to identify the name of this current:

Ocean: Atlantic

Hemisphere: Northern

Location: Eastern Basin

Flows: From Pole towards Equator

Temp: Cold

Character: Slow, Shallow & Wide

• Gulf Stream

• Canary Current

• Brazil Current

• North Equatorial Current

Which feature of the continental margin extends directly off the shoreline?

• continental rise

• continental shelf

• continental slope

• abyssal plain

Heavy evaporation and low precipitation will ___ the salinity of ocean water.

• increase

• decrease

• have no effect on

• warm

Letter A represents the

• continental rise

• continental shelf

• continental slope

• coastal plain

Which are western boundary currents (choose all that apply)

• California current

• Gulf Stream

• East Australian current

• warm, fast, narrow, deep

• cold, slow, wide, shallow

Use the following information to identify the name of this current:

Ocean: Pacific

Hemisphere: Southern

Location: Western Basin

Flows: From Equator towards Poles

Temp: Warm

Character: Fast, Deep & Narrow

• Kuroshio Current

• Peru Current

• South Equatorial Current

• East Australian Current