2021 Honors CFE Review Oceans and Weather

Deep Ocean currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density
• All of the above

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Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both A and B

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The California Current (west coast) carries _________ water from canada

• Cold 
• Warm
• Freezing
• Fresh

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Two types of water currents are

• local and global
• sea and land
• surface and deep
• warm and cold

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A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused mainly by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

• Gulf Stream

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Current

• Gyre

Surface currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density
• All of the above

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What might happen if the global conveyor stopped?

• Marine life would get too much oxygen
• Marine life would get too little oxygen
• There would be no effect
• There would be a new ice age

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____________ are large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans.

• La Niña
• El Niño
• Currents
• Climate

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       ______ is the pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time.

• Climate
• Weather
• A season
• The Coriolis Effect

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