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Ocean Currents Test

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How long do most plastics take to degrade?
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What is another name for the Humboldt current?
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What happens to air masses at 30 degrees?
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What current is the only one to entirley circumnavigate the Earth?
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What force is equalizing coriolis and continental contact for gyres to form the geostrophic balance?
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What type of fish are born in fresh water but l live most of their lives in ocean water?
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At what latitudes to you see the air rising leading to more precipitation?
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Which direction would the water move in the Northern hemisphere where the trade winds are blowing?
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At what degrees of latitude do you see the horse latitudes?
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What four currents make up the North atlantic gyre?
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How are winds named using directions?
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What kind of weather is associated with eastern boundary currents?
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What are the four characteristics of western boundary currents
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What directions are winds in the 5-30 degrees south latitude?
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What is the movement of water 90 degrees to the right of the wind in the N. Hemisphere called?
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What are the two types of upwelling?
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How is a current direction described?
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If a wind in a northerly wind in the Southern hemisphere, which direction is the net transport of water?
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What is the warm water current of the south atlantic gyre?
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What is Davy Jones' locker?
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Peru current
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over 100 years
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coastal and equatorial
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Gulf stream, north atlantic drift, Canaries current, and the north equatorial in order
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from where they are coming from.
F.
Ekman transport
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equator and polar front (60 degrees latitude N and S)
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fast-moving, narrow, warm, and deep
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Southeast, remember they are named for where they originate
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(northerly wind comes from north), so it is south of the wind meaning it is going EAST
K.
Anadromous
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dry cool coastal climate
M.
Gravity of the hill of water
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30 degrees
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brazil curent (western boundary)
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Northwest as the winds are made in the Northeast
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A middle layer of water where as ocean increases 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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Anarctic circumpolar Current
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They fall as they are cooled and have lost their moisture. (DESERTS ARE HERE)
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By where it is heading to
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What is the deep water circulation often referred to as the global conveyer belt?
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What are the small circulation loops that spin off western boundary currents like the gulf stream?
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What is the eastern boundary current of the Norht pacific gyre?
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What is the western boundary current of the North Atlantic gyre?
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What is the convection cell at 45 degrees south?
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Which direction does water flow in the southern hemisphered in comparision to the wind?
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Going from the North pole to the equator name the atmospheric convection cells in order
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Which direction does water flow in the northern hemisphere in comparison to the wind?
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At what degrees of latitude do you see the duldroms?
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What is the large sea on the western side of the North Atlantic gyre?

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