Ocean Currents
Weather
Causes
Effects
Grab Bag!
100

The rising of cold, deep water to the surface.

A. Swell 

B. high tide 

C. upwelling 

C What is upwelling

100

The weather in Peru during El Niño.

A. What is wet/rainy/warm.

B. cold, freezing temps 

A What is wet/rainy/warm.

100

El Niño begins in this ocean.

A. Atlantic 

B. Indian 

C. Artic 

D. Pacific 

D. What is Pacific Ocean

100
The result of too little rain.
What is a drought?
100
"El Niño" in English.
What is "boy"?
200

The surface of ocean water is this temperature during an El Niño.

What is warm

200

The weather in Australia during an El Niño year.

a. dry

b. wet 

c. humid

What is dry

200

Winds blowing from east to west

A. hurricane winds 

B.  Trade Winds

C. Tornados 

What are Trade Winds

200

The result of too much rain.

What is flooding/landslides

200

Weather in Arizona during a La Niña year.

A. dry and warm 

B. snow fall can happen 

C.  wet and cold

What is wet and cold

300
This temperature of water stays at the bottom of the ocean during El Niño.
What is cold?
300

Cooling that sometimes follows El Niño.

What is La Niña

300
Winds that die down and cause El Niño.
What are Trade Winds?
300

When there is not enough food for people and livestock.

What is a famine/starvation.

300

Penguins' bellies during an El Niño event.

a. full 

b. empty 

What is empty

400
Things that are swept up from the ocean floor to the ocean surface during an upwelling.
What are nutrients/minerals?
400

Weather in Arizona during an El Niño year.

A.  warmer than usual

B. colder than usual 

C. more humid than usual 

D. ALL THE ABOVE 

A. What is warmer than usual

400
Warm waters of El Niño are usually seen during this season.
What is Winter/Christmastime?
400

An effect of too little rainfall in forests.

What is forest fire

400

The first people to discover El Niño.

A. Native American Tribes 

B. Village People 

C. What are Peruvian fisherman

What are Peruvian fisherman

500
Trade winds usually move in this direction
What is east to west?
500

A natural disaster that occurs over warm waters.

What is a hurricane

500

How often El Niño occurs.

A. 10-20 years 

B. 2-4 years 

C. 100 years 

D. 3-7 years 

What is 3-7 years

500
Amount of fish for fishermen off the coast of Peru during El Niño.
What is smaller than usual?
500

Years that had unusually strong El Niño effects.

A 2000 or 2020 

B 1899 or 1900

C 1982-83  or 1997-98.

C What is 1982-83 or 1997-98.

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