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- 1. Multiple Choice
In which atmospheric layer do you find the Ozone?
Troposphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why do planes fly in the stratosphere?
All weather events occur in the troposphere
The clouds are thinner there
The Stratosphere is nice and warm
They don't. They fly in the mesosphere
- 3. Multiple Choice
What causes acid rain
excessive nutrients in water
Excessive CO2 and particulates in atmosphere combining with water vapor.
Ocean currents
Cloudy days
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is Specific Heat?
How hot something is, specifically.
Energy of Water
The amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of something by 1 degree Celsius.
Energy of land
- 5. Multiple Choice
The temperature of ocean water:
Rarely changes year round
Changes rapidly due to it being sunny at the beach
is always cold
Is mostly warm
- 6. Multiple Choice
In coastal areas, at night, the breeze moves:
From the ocean to land (Sea Breeze)
From the clouds to water due to precipitation
From the land towards the ocean (Land Breeze)
From the surface to the stratosphere
- 7. Multiple Choice
Ocean currents move warm water:
From the equator to the poles
From the poles to the equator
From the Atlantic to the Pacific
Along the Antarctic flow
- 8. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat energy due to direct contact is called
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Rotation
- 9. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat energy through liquids and gasses due to uneven heating is called:
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Revolution
- 10. Multiple Choice
The transfer of heat energy by electromagnetic waves is called:
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Uneven heating
- 11. Multiple Choice
Upwelling is where:
Well water is pumped to the surface
Nutrients are moved from the surface to the bottom of the ocean
Nutrients move up from the ocean bottom to the surface
Excessive nutrients are added to the water (Eutrophication)
- 12. Multiple Choice
Upwelling is caused by:
Winds blows air parallel to the coast moving surface water away from the coast.
Excessive Salt in the ocean
Fish swimming up from the deep ocean
Heat from the beach warming the water
- 13. Multiple Choice
What causes deep ocean currents
Wind
Large schools of fish swimming below the surface
the Coriolis effect
Differences in temperature and salinity
- 14. Multiple Choice
What causes Surface currents
Differences in Salinity
Winds
The Coriolis effect
Both the wind and the Coriolis effect
- 15. Multiple Choice
What are the large surface currents that rotate due to winds and The Coriolis effect called
Spinners
Gyres
Whirpools
Cyclones
- 16. Multiple Choice
The deep ocean current that moves water around the globe is known as:
The Thermocline
The Pycnocline
The Thermohaline
The Halocline
- 17. Multiple Choice
Another name for the Thermohaline is:
The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt
The Ocean Gyre
The Pycnocline
The Temperature/Salinity difference current
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which gas makes up most of our atmosphere
Oxygen
Carbon Dioxide
Nitrogen
H2O
- 19. Multiple Choice
Ocean acidification is:
When the pH of the ocean goes up due to excess CO2 in the atmosphere
Excessive chemicals being dumped into the ocean
Water Vapor being absorbed by the ocean
An increase in the Ozone layer
- 20. Multiple Choice
In which 2 layers does the temperature go increase
Troposphere, Atmospher
Stratosphere, Mesosphere
Stratosphere, Thermosphere
Mesosphere, Troposphere
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