El Nino
The phenomenon occurs
What is 3-7 years
La Nina is caused by what temperature of waters?
What is cold waters?
Normal conditions can cause what strength of trade winds?
What is stronger?
Cold surface currents can cause what type of evaporation?
What is Low evaporation?
A down welling is the sinking of what water?
What is surface water?
Name the 4 main effects of a change in wind patterns
What is ocean temperatures, ocean currents, rain patterns, disrupts food webs
What is the tropic Pacific?
Cold surface water results in
What is little evaporation
Warm surface currents can cause what type of amount of rainfall?
What is heavy rainfall?
The ocean conveyor belt is a system of what?
Eastern Pacific becomes warmer due to
what is warm waters aren't pushed as far west
What time of year is La Nina most present?
What is winter?
What is strong trade winds?
A Humboldt current can also be known as?
What is Peru current?
What characteristics of water can cause plankton growth in the ocean?
What is cold nutrient rich water?
How do trade winds change according to the map above?
What is weak trade winds.
What is hurricanes?
Due to warm water piling up in the western Pacific it causes what type of occurrence?
What is evaporation?
A California current moves what direction?
What is southward?
Seamounts can cause water to do what action?
What is deflect upwards?
Less nutrients from weaker upwellings result in
What is food webs collapsing
La Nina can make the coast what certain temperature and contain what other factor?
What is colder and contain more nutrients?
It is excellent for fishing due to
The gulf stream delivers warm water from the tropics of where?
What is the North Atlantic?
The rotation of the earth can cause what effect?
What is the Coriolis effect?