WorksheetsUnit Two Vocabulary
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is density?
How light an object is.
How heavy an object is.
How tightly packed particles of a substance are.
The amount of matter in a substance.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Ocean currents from the wind.
The Earth's tilt and rotation.
A system of deep ocean currents that moves water throughout the world’s oceans.
The curved path of a moving object due to the Earth’s rotation.
What are ocean currents?
Ocean currents are the continuous, predictable, directional movement of seawater driven by gravity, wind (Coriolis Effect), and water density.
How tightly packed particles of a substance are.
Large-scale density-driven circulation in the ocean, caused by differences in temperature and salinity.
What is windward?
The curved path of a moving object due to the Earth’s rotation.
Facing towards the wind.
Facing away from the wind.
A belt of winds traveling around the Earth.
What is leeward?
Facing away from the wind.
How tightly packed particles of a substance are.
Facing towards the wind.
A belt of dudes named Lee wrapping around the Earth.
What are surface currents?
Salt moving water in currents towards the surface.
When ocean water travels toward continents it deflects or changes direction.
Ocean current that is denser due to higher salinity and lower temperature flowing from the poles to the equator.
Ocean current that is less dense due to lower salinity and higher temperature flowing along the surface of the ocean from the equator to the poles.
What is a deep current?
Ocean current that is denser due to higher salinity and lower temperature flowing from the poles to the equator.
Ocean currents flowing deeper than others.
Wind currents high in the sky.
Large-scale density-driven circulation in the ocean, caused by differences in temperature and salinity.
What is salinity?
Salinity is the measure of dissolved peppers in water.
The quality or degree of being saline.
Salinity is the measure of dissolved salts in water.
Wind blowing salts and peppers in currents in the ocean.
What are rain shadows?
Areas covered in rain and rain clouds.
A region having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.
Shadows coming from rain.
A flooded area due to floods.
What are global winds?
Winds in the atmosphere.
Large winds blowing in one area.
The curved path of a moving object due to the Earth’s rotation.
Winds that occur in belts that go all around the planet.
What is climate?
Daily atmospheric changes
The average weather over a long period of time.
The way weather climbs up hills.
The average weather over a short period of time.
What is weather?
The average climate over a long period of time.
Daily atmospheric changes.
The process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the atmosphere.
Warm gas or liquid molecules rising and cooler air or water molecules sinking.
