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Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the globe.

• California Current
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Currents
• Gulf Stream

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Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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Average weather conditions of a region year after year.

• weather
• climate
• precipitation
• humidity

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Why does the equator stay warm all year long?

• Because the direct rays hit the equator all year.
• Because the equator is cold all year long.
• Because the climate in a year does not change.

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The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth revolving around the sun
• Earth rotating on its axis
• Rising and falling tides
• Pull of gravity

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Picture yourself sitting on a beach on a very warm day. The temperature of the air above the sand is about 10°C warmer than the air above the water.

Which of the following statements are true?

• The air above the water is denser than the air above the sand.

• The air particles above the water have more kinetic energy than the air particles above the sand.

• The breeze is blowing from a higher-pressure area to a lower-pressure area.

• Air rises above the sand because the air particles are lighter

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The energy that generates wind comes from what source?

• Solar radiation

• Magnetic attraction

• Moon's gravity

• Coriolis effect

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

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• both

• neither

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The higher the latitude, the colder the climate; the lower the latitude, the __________ the climate.

• wind

• hotter

• dense

• cools

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Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving what?

• oceans

• fish

• sunlight

• atmosphere

• land

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