Climate Change and Ocean Currents

________ and _______ affect the ocean's density and cause the Global Conveyor Belt to travel

• gravity and the Coriolis Effect

• temperature and salinity

• wind and climate

• temperature and the Coriolis Effect

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Decreasing ocean temperature causes the density of the water to ______.

• decrease

• increase

• stay the same

• fluctuate

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Gyres in the southern hemisphere are surface currents that turn _________ due to the Coriolis Effect.

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

• toward the right

• toward the bottom of the ocean

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The Gulf stream carries _____________ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.

• Cold

• Warm 

• Freezing

• Fresh

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Two types of ocean currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface and deep

• warm and cold

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What happens to a current when it comes in contact with a continent or landmass?

• It continues over the continent

• It stops

• It changes direction

• It is absorbed by the land

Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the southern hemisphere moves

• clockwise

• counter-clockwise

• both

• neither

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Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

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Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

• decreased slightly.

• increased steadily.

• stayed about the same

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Which of the following factors is primarily responsible for driving ocean currents and influencing climate change?

• Wind patterns

• Salinity levels

• Earth's rotation

• All of the above

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