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This warm current travels north along the east coast of the U.S.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Upwelling brings water to the surface with these two characteristics.
What is cold and nutrient-dense?
During El Niño, the tradewinds along the equator become this.
What is weaker?
This current keeps Western Europe far warmer than expected.
What is the Gulf Stream?
Warm currents create humid climate accompanied by this.
What is heavy rainfall?
This cold Pacific current flows south along California's coast.
What is the California Current?
Oxygen-rich water is delivered to denizens of the deep through this process.
What is downwelling?
During La Niña, citizens of the eastern coast of Asia need to be careful of these.
What are typhoons and flooding?
The Gulf Stream is fed from currents circulation in this geographical feature of North America.
What is the Gulf of Mexico? -200 points if you said Gulf of America.
Cold currents create arid climates that are often this type of biome.
What are deserts?
Equatorial currents are pushed west by these.
What are tradewinds?
Strong coastal winds drive upwelling, but so does this colossal feature of the seafloor.
What are seamounts?
What is the food web/biodiversity?
Downwelling at the end of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic marks the start of this global phenomenon.
What is the Great Ocean Conveyor?
What are coral reefs?
Gyres rotate in this direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
What is salinity?
California and Mexico may get drought relief during this event.
What is El Niño?
This event would severely weaken or halt the Gulf Stream, with disastrous effects on the global climate.
What is the melting of polar ice caps?
The North Pacific Gyre delivers the perfect type of water to the coasts along the Eastern Pacific for this type of ecosystem.
What are kelp forests?
This current delivers cold water to the Galápagos islands, allowing penguins to live in the area.
What is the Humboldt/Peru current?
The global circulation of upwelling and downwelling is also called this.
What is thermohaline circulation/Great Ocean Conveyor?
Sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific around 28-30 degrees Celsius and robust upwelling along the coast of South Africa are indicative of this type of condition.
What is are normal conditions?
The Gulf Stream splits into the North Atlantic Current and cools dramatically at this latitude. (+/- 5 degrees)
What is 40 degrees North?
What are rainforests?