In each blank, try to type in the
word that is missing. If you've
typed in the correct word, the
blank will turn green.
If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: What directions are winds in the 5-30 degrees latitude?Answer: Southeast, remember they are named for where they Question: Going from the North pole to the equator name the atmospheric convection in orderAnswer: , ferell, hadley Question: Going from the North pole to the equator name the winds you would expect to Answer: Polar easterlies, Westerlies, winds Question: At what degrees of do you see the duldroms?Answer: Question: At what degrees of latitude do you see the latitudes?Answer: 30 degrees Question: What is the eastern boundary of the Norht pacific gyre?Answer: current Question: What is the western boundary of the North Atlantic gyre?Answer: Gulf Question: What is the warm current of the North Pacific gyreAnswer: Kuroshio current (western ) Question: What is the warm water current of the south gyre?Answer: brazil curent (western ) Question: What four currents make up the atlantic gyre?Answer: Gulf stream, north atlantic drift, current, and the north equatorial in order Question: Name five warm currentsAnswer: Agulhas, Alaska, brazil, east australian, equitorial, gulf stream, kuroshio, atlantic drift, north pacific drift,
Question: Name five cool currentsAnswer: benguela, california, , humboldt (peru), labrador, oyashio (kamchatka), west australian, west wind drift (ACC) Question: What are the four characteristics of western currentsAnswer: fast-moving, narrow, warm, and Question: What are the four characteristics of boundary currents?Answer: slow-moving, , cool, and shallow
Question: Which direction does water flow in the northern in comparison to the wind?Answer: 90 right Question: direction does water flow in the southern hemisphered in comparision to the wind?Answer: 90 degrees Question: What two are in balance for geostrophic balanceAnswer: coriolis pushing water to center of gyre and gravity pushing it down the Question: What factors affect the direction of the surface currents?Answer: wind (uneven solar heating), continents/land masses, and geostrophic . Question: Which direction would water move in the Southern hemsiphere there are westerlies?Answer: to the northeast as the winds are (made in the NW)
Question: Which direction would the water move in the Northern hemisphere the trade winds are blowing?Answer: Northwest as the winds are made in the Question: What is another name for the Humboldt ?Answer: Peru Question: What kind of weather is associated with eastern boundary ?Answer: dry cool climate Question: At what to you see the air rising leading to more precipitation?Answer: equator and polar front (60 latitude N and S)
Question: What happens to air at 30 degrees?Answer: They fall as they are and have lost their moisture. (DESERTS ARE HERE) Question: What is the convection cell at 45 south?Answer: Ferell Question: What is the only one to entirley circumnavigate the Earth?Answer: Anarctic circumpolar Question: What type of fish are born in fresh water but l live most of lives in ocean water?Answer: Anadromous Question: What is the large sea on the western side of the Atlantic gyre?Answer: Sargasso Question: How long do most plastics take to ?Answer: over 100 Question: What are the forces that are moving currents in gyres?Answer: gravity from hill of water, coriolis from , continents Question: What is the curving of water due to the spinning of the called?Answer: effect Question: What is the of water 90 degrees to the right of the wind in the N. Hemisphere called?Answer: Ekman Question: If a wind in a northerly wind in the Southern hemisphere, which direction is the net transport of ?Answer: (northerly wind comes from north), so it is of the wind meaning it is going EAST Question: How are winds named using ?Answer: from they are coming from.
Question: How is a current described?Answer: By where it is to Question: What are the two of upwelling?Answer: coastal and Question: What is the main from upwelling?Answer: nutrients come from of the ocean Question: What is the deep circulation often referred to as the global conveyer belt?Answer: circulation Question: What force is equalizing coriolis and continental for gyres to form the geostrophic balance?Answer: Gravity of the hill of Question: What is the phenomenon that when water all converges on one spot in the ocean?Answer: downwelling: water is pushed Question: What are the small circulation loops that spin off western boundary currents like the gulf ?Answer: eddies Question: What is Davy ' locker?Answer: A middle layer of water where as ocean in depth the density increases so bodies or other objects that sink at the surface get trapped and can't sink any deeper. |
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