When a moving object appears to move or curve away from its intended destination due to the rotation of the Earth.
100
El nino is cold and El nina is warm.
True or False
false. El nino is warm and El nina is cold.
100
How did salt get into the Ocean?
Rain, rivers, and streams that washed over rocks
100
What is a gyre?
What is an enormous circulation cell that circulates clockwise in the ocean basins of the Southern Hemisphere?
200
What 2 factors control the density of seawater?
What is temparature and salinity?
200
What is an estuary?
What is fresh water meeting salty water?
200
Where is El nino occur?
What is the equatorial Pacific Ocean?
200
What 2 things increase the amount of salinity in the ocean?
What is evaporation and formation of sea ice?
200
What way does the friction of the wind act on the surface of the Ocean water?
downward, always!
300
What is the movement of deep ocean water controlled by?
What is the density of the water?
300
Define Southern Oscillation.
Variations in the temparature of the surface of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.
300
How many years does el nino occur?
What is 5 years?
300
When water evaporates into the sky the salt is left behind.
True or false
True
300
What is the upward movement of ocean water to the surface from the deep in the ocean?
Upwelling
400
The higher salinity of the water the less dense it is.
True or False
What is false.
400
What is the word for the process by which water flows semi-permeable membrane, such as an animals skin, from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration?
What is Osmosis?
400
What is La Nina? What does it do?
La Nina is the cold oceanic phase that accompanies low air surface pressure in the western Pacific.
400
What do changes in salt concentration affect?
What is the weight of surface waters?
400
How do gyres play an important role in the Earth's climate?
They help transport hear energy from low latitudes, where the Earth is warmed by the Sun, to high latitudes, where the Earth's surface loses heat to outer space.
500
What has a greater affect on seawater density?
What is temperature?
500
In the word pycnocline, referring to the transition zone between cold water and warm water, what does the prefix "pycno" mean?
What is density?
500
Floods and Droughts are caused by El Nino and La Nina.
True or false
What is true?
500
What is the average ocean salinity?
What is 35 ppt?
500
Where does the Coriolis effect vanish?
Hint: Where El nino occurs