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

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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Warm air is __________ dense than cold air and rises creating convection currents.

• more
• less

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Which sentence best describes how latitude and temperature are related?

• LOWER latitude = COLDER air temperature
• HIGHER latitude = COLDER air temperature
• HIGHER latitude = WARMER temperatures

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Which of the following factors has the greatest effect on surface currents?

• global winds
• Neptune God of the Sea
• differences in water salinity
• differences in water temperature

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What is climate?

•  What's going on with the atmosphere at any particular time
• The type of weather that occurs during a particular season
• An area's pattern of weather over a long period of time
• How much sunshine an area gets 

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Climate is

• The conditions of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
• The average precipitation and temperature a region receives

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What causes wind?

• movement of high pressure to low pressure
• movement of low pressure to high pressure

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Climate change causes extreme weather conditions such as:

• Flooding
• Heat Waves
• Hurricanes
• All of the above

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The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 

• Gulf Stream
• California Current
• North Equatorial Current
• Brazil Current

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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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