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This type of tide results from the straight alignment of the sun and moon which adds their strength together.
a) Neap tide
b) Fall tide
c) Spring tide
d) Leap tide

This layer of the water is well mixed due to wind, waves and currents.
a) Surface layer
b) Thermocline
c) Deep layer
d) Watercolumn

What are the large, circular surface current systems that are created by wind?
a) Whirlpool
b) Gyres
c) Waves
d) Overturn

Global winds, Coriolis effect and continental deflections drive what?
a) Surface currents
b) Tides
c) Gyres
d) Mixing of water

Gyres rotate _________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
a) Clockwise
b) Counterclockwise
c)
d)

The difference in temperature created by the sun causes
a) The Coriolis effect
b) Continental deflection
c) Waves
d) Wind

The vertical column consisting of a group of layers is called
a) Overturn column
b) Water column
c) Layers
d) Horizontal column

This tide occurs when the sun and the moon are perpendicular to each other which reduces their strength.
a) Neap tide
b) Fall tide
c) Spring tide
d) Summer tide

Gyres rotate ___________ in the Southern Hemisphere
a) Clockwise
b) Counterclockwise
c)
d)

Waves carry
a) Water
b) Energy
c) Molecules
d) Nothing

This tide results in higher high tides and lower low tides
a) Summer tide
b) Leap tide
c) Spring tide
d) Neap tide

This idea states that the winds/currents do not move in a straight line but curve?
a) Coriolis effect
b) Coriolis wonder
c) Rotation effect
d) Continental deflection

This layer in the ocean is uniformly cold.
a) Surface layer
b) Thermocline
c) Deep layer
d)

When the surface layer becomes denser due to excess evaporation or cooling with seasonal temps this results in
a) No change
b) The surface layer displacing lower less dense water
c) The surface layer releasing more oxygen into the atmosphere
d)

Which set of winds occurs between the equator and 30 degrees and move west
a) Polar easterlies
b) Trade winds
c) Westerlies
d)

Based on the Coriolis effect, what causes the winds to curve?
a) Wind
b) Rotation of the earth
c) Tides
d) Water

What has a stronger gravitational pull
a) Moon
b) Sun
c) Sun and moon are equal
d)

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