Ocean and Atmospheric Circulation Test

The Coriolis effect influences the surface ocean currents.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The layers of the atmosphere starting closest to the surface of the Earth:

• troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermospere, exosphere

• thermosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, mesosphere, exosphere

• stratosphere, troposphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere

• troposphere, thermosphere, mesophere, stratosphere, exosphere

Where does the ozone layer naturally occur?

• mesophere

• thermosphere

• stratosphere

• exosphere

A gas that naturally deflects the suns radiation back to space, keeping some of the harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth's surface.

• carbon dioxide

• ozone

These naturally trap some of the heat from the sun in the Earth's atmosphere, allowing the Earth to maintain a temperature that is hospitable.

• convection cells

• greenhouse gases

• trade winds

• surface currents

Microscopic particles in the atmosphere that can be both anthropogenic and natural.

• chlorophyll

• basalt

• aerosol

• calcium carbonate

Surface currents are influenced in large part by ____________, and deep ocean currents are influenced in large part by ______________. (choose the option that lists the answers in the correct order)

• heat, wind

• density, gravity

• wind, density

• seismic activity, wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Deeper water moves more slowly, and each layer deflects to the right or left due to the Coriolis effect. When observing the effect of wind on the water column, the deeper layers move in slightly different directions. This phenomenon is called:

• Eckman spiral

• gyres

• thermohaline circulation

• downwelling

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Different varieties of an element such as carbon, are called isotopes. Each isotope has a different number of ________________.

• electrons

• neutrons

• protons

• atoms

Objects or particles moving over the surface of the Earth tend to deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Convection cell

• Coriolis effect

• Ekman spiral

• Upwelling

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