Oceans Review 4-6

When water evaporates, residues of ______ and other minerals that will not evaporate are left behind, making water ______ .

• salt; denser

• chalk; lighter

• silt; warmer

• carbon; cooler

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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation is a fluctuation in tropical ocean temperatures off the Pacific coast of South America. The warm phase is called ______.

• La Niña.

• El Caballero

• El Niño

• La Dama

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

• Greenhouse effect
• Coriolis effect
• Global warming
• Convection

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This Image represents...

• Downwelling

• Upwelling

• Thermohaline circulation

• Rip Current

Movements of ocean water in a continuous flow are called?

• ocean currents
• global winds
• air mass
• front

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Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the southern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter-clockwise
• both
• neither

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Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both A and B

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Deep Ocean currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density
• All of the above

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______ causes surface currents.

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• density differences

• wind

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