AP Environmental Unit 4

One of the major ways oceans contribute to weather systems is that the oceans -

• provide a diverse habitat for many organisms

• store and transport the Sun's heat energy.

• experience changes in amounts of dissolved salt.

• reach depths that can be as much as 12,000 meters.

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Which best describes this image

• Convection Current

• Conduction Current

• Solar Cycle

• Lunar Cycle

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What is wind?

• Large scale movement of air caused by differences in air pressure and temperature

• Large scale movement of CO2 caused by differences in air pressure

• Large scale movement of air caused by differences in temperature

• Large scale movement of temperature caused by differences in air pressure

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The tendency for objects to move to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and the to the left in the Southern Hemisphere is due to the:

• Eckman's spiral

• Coriolis effect

• Westerlies

• Gyres

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What is the main source influencing global climate?

• The moon

• Tidal bulges

• Solar energy

• Currents

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A geographical ridge, like a hill or mountain, that separates one watershed land area from another.

• divide

• tributary

• river

• aquifer

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An area of land where the surface water and groundwater drain into a particular body of water

• Watershed

• Drainage Divide

• Erosion

• Aquifer

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What season is happening in the Northern Hemisphere?

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

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During a(n) ____ event, trade winds are much stronger than usual.

• El Nino

• La Nina

• Normal

• Partly sunny

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Both El Nino and La Nina have this in common

• Influence birds that migrate over the ocean

• Influence rainy / dry weather world wide

• The weather at the polar regions

• The directions that ships travel in the oceans

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