Coastal Upwelling

Upwelling is the process where warm, nutrient rich water from deep in the ocean rises to the surface.

• False
• True

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Upwelling occurs as the _______________ blow warm surface water away from the coast.

• Prevailing Westerlies
• Equatorial Winds
• Trade Winds
• Tropical Winds

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Upwelling occurs in the waters off the ____________ coast of continents in the tropics.

• West 
• North
• East
• South

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A result of upwelling is a/an _________ in nutrients in the water.

• Decrease
• Increase
• No Change

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The nutrients in the water help tiny plants called ______________  to grow. 

• algae
• kelp
• plankton

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Upwelling causes the water off the western coasts of continents in the tropics to  

• Have warmer temperatures than other tropical waters
• be productive fishing grounds
• produce El Nino 
• ride over cold denser waters below

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Upwelling increases amounts of this at the surface

• air concentrations

• Warm water

• Organic nutrients

• detritus

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An example of an abiotic factor that would impact plankton could be:

• predtors near by

• water pH

• other zooplankton

• primary consumers

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upwelling would

• decrease biodiversity

• occur in the Sargasso Sea

• occur due to marine snow

• increase productivity

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upwelling is driven by

• plankton

• wind

• predation

• density differences

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