APES CUA 1 REVIEW

This is the side of the mountain that is often drier and warmer.

• Leeward Side
• Wet Lapse Rate
• Windward Side
• Wild Side

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

What is "upwelling"?

• when wind near a shore pushes surface water away, nutrient rich cold water rises from the depths
• water rises from springs at the bottom of lakes
• it is when cold water sinks in the Norwegian Sea
• It is when the Coriolis effect makes currents go around in a circle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

During __________ upwelling occurs off the coast of Peru.

• Normal Conditions
• El Nino

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The surface of the earth, otherwise known as the ______, is broken into seven major pieces and sits atop a liquid layer called the _______

• lithosphere, asthenosphere

• astenosphere, mantle

• crust, litosphere

• asthenosphere, lithosphere

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The San Andrea's Fault in California is which type of boundary?

• Convergent
• Divergent
• Subductive Zone
• Transform

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

The layer of soil which the topsoil is found.

• Horizon A
• Horizon B
• Horizon C
• Horizon D or R

Sea surface temperature changes great than .5^oC for greater than 5 months across the centeral ropical Pacific OCean are known as

• the arctic effect
• the get stream 
• a typhoon
• El Nino-Southern Oscillation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of the following contributes to the unequal warming of earth?
I. variation in the angle of sunlight that reaches Earth
II. variation in the amount of surface area over which the Sun's rays are distributed
III. variation in the amount of sunlight reflected from clouds

• I only
• I and II only
• II and III only
• III only

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The Coriolis effect is responsible for

• the convergence of two ascending Hadley cells
• the location of atmospheric currents caused by the unequal heating of Earth
• the cooling effect of air as it rises and expands
• the deflection of atmospheric currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which is the correct order of the convection cells starting from the equator?

• polar, ferrell, hadley
• ferrell, hadley, polar
• polar, hadley, ferrell
• hadley, ferrell, polar

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6