Global winds appear to curve due to the:

• Weather

• Wind

• Coriolis Effect

• Climate

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Convection is ______.

• warm air rising and cold air loweringconvection

• cold air rising

• hot air lowering

• cool aircon

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What is a Gulf Stream?

• A storm

• A fast spinning funnel shaped cloud

• A warm ocean current that flows along the eastern coast of North America

• A warm jet stream current that flows along the western coast of North America

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What is the Coriolis Effect?

• pattern of ocean currents due to water temperature

• the fast winds in the upper troposphere

• the curved pattern of winds because of the earth's rotation

• rising of warm air and sinking of cold air

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What is Climate?

• Seasons

• A Water Cycle

• The short-term state of the atmosphere.

• The Average pattern of weather for a particular region.

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Weather is?

• Weather measured over a long period of time.

• The Average pattern of weather for a particular region.

• pattern of ocean currents due to water temperature

• What is happening outside in the atmosphere RIGHT NOW.

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How does latitude affect climate?

• The closer to the equator the colder the climate

• High latitude means colder climate. Low latitude means a hotter climate.

• Latitude doesn't affect climate

• The bigger latitude you have, the hotter the climate will be.

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One of the major ways oceans contribute to weather systems is that the oceans -

• provide a diverse habitat for many organisms

• store and transport the Sun's heat energy.

• experience changes in amounts of dissolved salt.

• reach depths that can be as much as 12,000 meters.

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What is considered the driving force for Earth's climate

• Rain

• Moon phases

• Earth Rotation

• The Sun

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Which best describes this image

• Convection Current

• Conduction Current

• Solar Cycle

• Lunar Cycle

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