Ocean currents, global winds, greenhouse effect

What causes ocean currents in the Northern Hemisphere to curve to the right?

• Earth's orbit around the Sun
• Earth's spinning on its axis
• Earth's magnetic field
• Earth's force of gravity

If the Earth did not rotate on its axis, there would be no

• Greenhouse effect
• Coriolis effect
• Global warming
• Convection

Climate is

• the further you get from the equator
• the higher you go, the colder it gets
• the conditions of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
• the average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.

Earth’s climate system is powered mainly by energy from:

• Tilt
• The sun
• Latitude
• The rain shadow

Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called

• astronomers
• climatologist
• meteorologist
• weatherologist

Movements of ocean water in a continuous flow are called?

• ocean currents
• global winds
• air mass
• front

What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude
• Shock waves from clouds
• Differences in air temperature and pressure
• The rotation of earth

What causes warm air to rise? 

• The fact that it's less dense than cold air
• The fact that it weighs more than cold air
• The fact that it has higher pressure than cold air
• The fact that it's more dense than cold air

Differences in the temperature between the North and South poles and the equator create thermal currents in the atmosphere that form global winds.What is the source of energy for these currents?

• equator
• moon
• Sun
• tides

What are all of the climate zones that result from the unequal heating of Earth?

• tropical and polar
• temperate and polar
• temperate and tropical
• tropical, temperate, and polar