Oceanography

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun
• Earth rotating on its axis
• The tides
• Gravity

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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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Why are surface currents at the surface of the ocean?

• colder temperature
• colder temperature & more salinty
• warmer temperature & less salinty
• less salinty

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As you go deeper in the ocean, the water is colder and less salty.

• True
• False

Which of the following causes water from deep currents to rise to the surface to replace warm currents?

• evaporation
• freezing of the surface of the water
• upwelling
• squeezing solids out of the ice down into the water below

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The process of deep, nutrient-rich water moving upward to replace surface water that has blown farther offshore is called ___.

• downwelling
• upwelling
• rip current
• longshore current

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The curving of air to the right in the Northern hemisphere is caused by ___________ and is called the _________ effect.

• Earth's rotation...Coriolis
• Earth's revolution...Coriolis
• Earth's rotation...Doppler
• Earth's revolution...Doppler

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Temperature and salinity affect the ______ of water.

• none of the other choices
• wave speed
• depth
• density

Where is the ocean deepest?

• ocean trench
• volcanic island
• abyssal plain 
• mid-ocean ridge

As you go deeper in the ocean, the _______ decreases. 

• water
• salinity
• temperature
• water pressure