Ocean Atmosphere and Current Final

What is El Nino to Climatologists?

• A boy

• A girl

• Warming of the sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical pacific ocean.

• A change in the average temperature of the whole earth.

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Energy transfers from hotter things to colder things.

• True

• False

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Which image shows how air gets its energy.

• 1

• 2

Answer explanation

Energy transfers from the sun to the surface and then to the air.

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Ocean water moving in a continuous path is called a...

• gyre

• current

• equator

• latitude

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What are some of the effects of El Nino?

• droughts

• flooding

• crops don't grow

• All of the above are effects of el nino

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Which of the following is NOT a surface

• Air

• land

• water

• All of the above are surfaces

Climatologists use the term atmosphere to describe the mixture of gases or air that surrounds a planet.

• True

• False

Temperature is a measure of how hot or cold something is. It is the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a thing.

• True

• False

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Air with more energy will have a lower temperature than air with less energy.

• True

• False

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An imaginary line that's around the middle of the planet and is halfway between the north pole and the south pole.

• latitude

• atmosphere

• equator

• longitude

Answer explanation

It is halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0 degrees latitude. An equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The Earth is widest at its Equator.