CH. 3 quiz

What is the name of the major sub-circular current system found in every ocean?

• Western Boundary Currents

• Eastern Boundary Currents

• Ocean Gyres

• Sub Surface Currents

____ causes major ocean gyres in the Northern Hemisphere to flow in a clockwise direction and the gyres in the Southern Hemisphere to flow in a counterclockwise direction. Mark only one oval.

• Earth's magnetic field

• The effect of Earth's rotation (the Coriolis effect)

• The gravitational pull of the Moon

• The effect of Earth's axial tilt

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Surface temperatures are warmer at Earth's equator than at the poles because of

• Earth's rotation

• patterns of circulation in the atmosphere

• Earth's spherical shape, which affects the angle that the Sun's energy strikes the surface

• Earth's axial tilt

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What is the primary driving force behind surface currents?

• prevailing winds

• uneven sloping of the oceanic crust

• the Coriolis effect

• density differences due to variations in temperature and salinity

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What is the primary driving force behind deep water currents?

• prevailing winds

• uneven sloping of the oceanic crust

• the Coriolis effect

• density differences due to variations in temperature and salinity

Which of the following set of properties represents water with the highest density?

• cold, low salinity

• cold, high salinity

• warm, low salinity

• warm, high salinity

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Deep water formation areas drive the global conveyor belt, which

• circulates water primarily within the Atlantic Ocean.

• flows beneath the continents.

• connects the water of all Earth’s oceans.

• stops circulating during El Niño years.

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According to the map below, what explains why Halifax, Nova Scotia is significantly colder than Bordeaux, France even though they are at similar latitudes?

• The North Atlantic Current

• Subarctic air masses coming out of the interior of Canada

• The Labrador Current coming out of the north

• The Gulf Stream bringing strong storms into the region

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Select all pelagic environments which are in the photic zone. Check all that apply.

• Sublittoral

• Abyssopelagic

• Mesopelagic

• Epipelagic

• Bathypelagic

Select all pelagic environments which are in the aphotic zone. Check all that apply.

• Mesopelagic

• Bathypelagic

• Subtidal

• Abyssopelagic

• Sublittoral