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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.

• false
• true

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Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze

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What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude 
• Shock waves from clouds 
• Differences in air temperature and pressure 
• The rotation of the earth

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What creates the air pressure difference between the equator and the poles?

• The length of the seasons
• The shape of the earth 
• the duration of the solar year
• The amount of direct sunlight each area receives 

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In the day, land ___________than the sea.

• cools down faster

• cools down slower

• heats up faster

• heats up slower

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Areas closer to the equator receive more direct energy from the Sun and have warmer temperatures.

• True

• False

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What is the major source of energy that causes surface currents to form?

• Earth
• The sun
• The moon
• The equator

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The sun's rays are least direct near the equator.

• True

• False - near the poles

• False - at high altitudes

• False - far from the ocean

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Convection currents, which affect weather and climate, are created by

• slow, constant tectonic movement.

• mining of the seafloor.

• erosion of ocean beaches.

• the uneven heating of the Earth.

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

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• both

• neither

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