Midterm Exam

How does the Gulf Stream affect world climate?

• The Gulf stream makes the area colder.

• Transfers heat energy from place to place

• transfers thermal energy from one place to another

• The Gulf stream does not affect climate.

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Moving thermal energy from one place to another is caused by a change of _________________, which can affect climate.

• Warm ocean currents

• cool rain

• animal habitat

• plants in an area

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If conduction is the direct contact of an object to transfer heat, which is an example of uneven heating, explain what is happening in this image

• Heat energy causes gas to expand

• The added heat makes the balloon deflate

• added heat causes the gas in the balloon to expand

• the transfer of heat does not do anything

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How would you explain the cause of convection currents in the atmosphere?

• Sunlight is more concentrated in some places on Earth

• There is direct sunlight at the equator and indirect sunlight at the poles

• The sunlight does not have anything to do with convection currents

• only the indirect sunlight at the poles creates convection currents

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List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Draw conclusions

Analyze results

Form a hypothesis

Ask a question

Communicate results

Conduct experiment

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If cold air moves from the poles to the equator and winds tend to blow in a straight line - then what affects the winds and causes them to curve?

• the Coriolis effect

• Rotation of the Earth

• tilt of the Earth

• jet streams

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What causes the Coriolis Effect?

• the tilt of the Earth

• the sunlight at the poles

• the sunlight at the equator

• Rotation of the Earth

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What drives ocean circulation of currents?

• the tilt of the Earth

• Solar Heating

• jet streams

• thermal heating

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Wind is blowing in from the windward side. What best describes this image?

• The Leeward side dries the vapor out

• The ocean air cools as it rises, producing rain on the Windward side

• The air warms as it drops, producing hot air on the Leeward side

• The ocean has nothing to do with climate

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Oceans cover a majority of Earth’s surface. Which best describes the difference between land and ocean and absorption of heat?

• More radiation energy is absorbed and stored by land and mountains

• Less heat energy is absorbed and stored by oceans

• More heat energy is absorbed and stored by oceans

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