Ocean Final Review 2

Objects in the NORTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?

• Left

• Up

• Down

• Right

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Objects in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?

• Left

• Up

• Down

• Right

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

• The wind blowing

• Earth's gravity pulling things down

• The rotation of the Earth

• The pull of the Moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Gyres, Spirals, Eddies, Upwellings and Downwellings are all examples of ocean _____.

• Ferrel cells

• Currents

• Typhoons

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

______ causes surface currents.

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• density differences

• wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place through matter or space

• wave

• position

• time

• protein

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which three characteristics are used to classify waves?

• wavelength

• loudness

• height

• frequency

The two major tsunamis that have occurred in recent history in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean occurred in what years?

• 2004

• 2006

• 2011

• 2015

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which mountain range produces most of the sediments on the east coast?

• The Rockies

• The Sangre de Cristos

• The Appalachians

In general, sand tend to drift in the same general direction as ___.

• the Earth's rotation

• the prevailing winds

• downhill