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Heat from the sun, wind, salinity, land mass acting as barriers, and earth's rotation are all factors that make ocean currents form.

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The climate in a tropical rain forest can be described as

• cold and wet 
• warm and dry 
• cold and dry 
• warm and wet 

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What is the driving force for the events pictured?

• high pressure and low pressure weather gradients
• the Sun heating the air and land creating convection currents
• convection currents within the ocean's water
• plants releasing oxygen and using carbon dioxide due to photosynthesis

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What is climate?

• What's happening in space at a time and place.
• What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place
• The average weather over many years
• The average temperature over many years.

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Cool, sinking air at 30 degrees North create a pressure belt known as the:

• Trade Winds
• Doldrums
• Horse Latitudes
• Westerlies

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Cold ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole 
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Either Pole

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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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What is an effect of ocean currents?

• They make water saltier

• They move heat around the globe

• They create wind

• They cause hurricanes

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The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

• The wind blowing

• Earth's gravity pulling things down

• The rotation of the Earth

• The pull of the Moon

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In both the Indian and Pacific Oceans, deep water begins to warm up and ______________, joining back in with the Gulf Stream.

• sinks

• rises

• freezes

• evaporates

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