APES/CED Unit 4b F&R2ed

A reversal of the wind and water currents in the South Pacific

• Coriolis Effect

• Thermohaline circulation

• El Nino - Southern Oscillation

• Rain Shadow Effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A large-scale pattern of water circulation that moves clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Thermohaline circulation

• Gyre

• Conveyer Currents

• Input systems

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

all land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake, or wetland.

• Runoff

• Watershed

• Standing Crop

• Mineralization

The upward movement of ocean water toward the surface due to diverging currents.

• Gyre

• Upwelling

• Thermohaline circulation

• ENSO

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the deflection of an object’s path due to the rotation of Earth.

• Terrestrial Biome

• Aquatic Biome

• Freshwater Wetland

• Coriolis Effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

An oceanic circulation pattern that drives the mixing of surface water and deep water.

• Thermohaline Circulation

• Polar cell

• Input

• Conveyer currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A region with dry conditions on the leeward side of a mountain range as a result of humid winds from the ocean causing rain on the windward side.

• Hadley Cells

• ITCZ

• Rain shadow

• Coriolis effect

a soil horizon composed primarily of mineral material with very little organic matter.

• B horizon

• Hotspot

• Parent material

• A horizon

A convection current that lies between the Hadley and the Polar cells.

• Gyre Cells

• Saturation Cells

• Intertropical Cells

• Ferrell Cells

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The latitude that receives the most intense sunlight, which causes the ascending branches of the two Hadley Cells to converge.

• Conveyer Current Conjunction

• the 60 degree Lane

• Intertropical Convergence Zone

• Extraordinary Alliance Area

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6