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Ocean Currents
Weather
Causes
Effects
Grab Bag!
100
The rising of cold, deep water to the surface.
What is upwelling?
100
The weather in Peru during El Niño.
What is wet/rainy/warm.
100
El Niño begins in this ocean.
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.
What is dry?
200
Winds blowing from east to west
What are Trade Winds?
200
The result of too much rain.
What is flooding/landslides?
200
Weather in Oregon during a La Niña year.
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.
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 Oregon during an El Niño year.
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.
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.
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.
What is 1982-83 or 1997-98.