El Niño, La Niña, and more
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones.
Mangroves, Erosion, Deposition, and Dunes
Coral Reefs, Stakeholders and Management
Sovereignty, Territorial Waters and EEZs
100

This process is an intermittent cold current that flows from the east across the equatorial Pacific Ocean.  

What is La Niña?

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

These occur in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.  

What are cyclones?

100

The geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water

What is Erosion?

100

This part of coral stretches wide to swallow.

What is the Mouth?

100

What does EEZ stand for?

What is an Exclusive Economic Zone?

200

During what process is the pattern of water reversed and Water temperatures in the eastern Pacific rise as warm water from the western Pacific flows into the east Pacific?

What is El Niño?

200

These occur in the Atlantic and north-east Pacific

What are hurricanes?

200

This wave has a Weak Swash and a Very Strong Backwash.

What is a Deconstructive wave?

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objective.

What is a Stakeholder? 

200

What does UNGLS stand for?

What is the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNGLS)?

300

Surface currents bring warm water to the North Atlantic from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. These waters give up their heat to cold winds which blow from Canada across the North Atlantic. This water then sinks and starts the reverse convection of the deep ocean current.

What is the ocean conveyor belt?

300

These occu in the north-west Pacific?

What are Typhoons?

300
When a seacliff is eroded by waves, resulting in the deposition of cliff material and the formation of a bedrock area where erosion occurred.

What is a Wave-Cut Platform?

300

What is the primary Stakeholder in Climate Change 

What are Humans?

300

a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLS) over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

What is an EEZ?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Atlantic Beach, in Jacksonville Florida, would be most impacted by which flow type?

What is La Niña?

400

A Hurricane moving at 111-129 mph is classified as...

What is a Category 3 Hurrincane?

400

What are the dune-cross profile names in order

1. Embryo Dune

2. Fore Dune 

3. Yellow Dune 

4. Grey Dune 

5. Dune Slack 

6. Mature Dune

400

What common occurrence happens to coral when it is killed

What is Colorlessness?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

EEZs are enforced how many miles from the shore  

What is 200 naudical miles?

500

what is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of a body.

What is specific heat capacity?

500

Typhoon Haiyan or Super Typhoon Yolanda was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. On making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions with winds up to 300km/h. This typhoon most which country ?

What is the Philippines?

500

This mangrove has underground cable-like roots growing from the trunk. Slender pencil-like roots called pneumatophores grow from the ground 

What is White Mangroves (Rhizophora)?

500

These make up the living part of the coral. They are animals which eat even smaller sea creatures

What are Polyps?

500

Which countries have the largest EEZs?

What is France?

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