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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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What is the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time?

• climate
• temperature
• elevation
• precipitation

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Which of the following does NOT have an affect on a region's climate?

• Large bodies of water
• Latitude
• Mountains
• Longitude

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Which event temporarily slows or reverses surface ocean currents in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean, causing a disruption of normal weather patterns?

• tsunami
• El Niño
• volcanic eruption
• deforestation

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Currents that carry warm water are moving

• from the Equator to the poles

• from the poles to the Equator

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What causes differences in air pressure?

• even heating of the Earth

• Even cooling of the earth

• uneven heating of the earth

• global warming

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Which statement about Earth's heating patterns is true?

• The rate of cooling depends on the season.

• Large bodies of water cool more quickly than land.

• Land cools more quickly than large bodies of water.

• Land and large bodies of water cool at the same rate.

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What is the Coriolis effect?

• heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, more dense fluids.

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• the apparent deflection of moving air as a result of Earth's rotation.

• The amount of matter in a given volume.

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What is the circular motion of hot air rising and cold air sinking?

• Radiation

• Convection Currents

• Electromagnetic Waves

• Conduction

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Hurricane

• Transfer of thermal energy through circular motion caused by heating and cooling of fluids (liquids/gases)

• tropical cyclones that forms in the southern Atlantic along the equator. MUST BE OVER WARM WATER.

• The movement of air as a result of Earths rotation. (Northern Hemisphere it curves to the right)

• The amount of water vapor in the air

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