oceans

A build up of warmer than usual water is indication of which weather event?

• El Nino

• La Nina

• El Hombre

• La Mujer

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El Nino creates this type of weather in the US Southwest and

Texas

• Drier

• Wetter

• Normal

• Freezing

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What causes the ocean surface temperatures to change between El

Nino to La Nina?

• Cold water upwellings off the coast of Indonesia

• Warm water upwellings off the coast of Indonesia

• Strong trade winds blowing off the coast of South America

• Weak trade winds blowing off the coast of South America

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What is generally true about thermoclines?

• Ocean temps are fairly constant above the thermocline

• Ocean temps are fairly constant below the thermocline

• Thermocline temperatures are constant around the world

• There is no purpose to knowing what a thermocline is

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Where will you find the most dense water?

• warm fresh water

• warm salt water

• come fresh water

• cold salt water

Why does the salinity near the equator drop?

• More rain at the equator dilutes the salinity

• More rain at the tropics adds salinity

• Higher evaporation rates at the equator

• warmer water at the equator = more salinity

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What is a gyre?

• A current of warm water along the coast

• circulating water currents

• A current of cold water in the open ccean

• Where a cold and warm current collide with each other

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What causes currents to change directions in different hemispheres?

• • Coriolis Effect

• • Butterfly Effect

• Bernoulli Effect

• Angle of Isolation

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Which direction does the Coriolis Effect have on the Northern Hemisphere?

• Warm water is pushed toward South America

• Clockwise rotations

• Counter-Clockwise rotations

• Gyres made completely of cold water

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Where do we find the strongest Upwellings?

• Southern coast of continents

• Northern coast of continents

• Eastern coast of continents

• Western coast of continents

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