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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why is upwelling (deep water moving to the surface) important?
Upwelling makes the ocean more salty.
Upwelling provides nutrient rich water that sustains life
Upwelling controls the tides
Upwelling helps sailors to navigate the seas
- 2. Multiple ChoiceTwo types of ocean currents arelocal and globalsea and landsurface and deepwarm and cold
- 3. Multiple Choice
Salinity is
The salt content of a substance
The Pepper content of a substance
The circulation of hot and cold matter
the weather pattern of a region
- 4. Multiple Choice
Deep Ocean currents caused by
Global Wind Patterns
Earth's Rotation
Differences in density
All of the above
- 5. Multiple Choice
As you go deeper in the ocean, the water is colder and less salty.
True
False
- 6. Multiple Choice
What do we call the constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by differences in temperature and salinity?
California Current
Global Conveyor Belt
Surface Currents
Gulf Stream
- 7. Multiple Choice
Where would I find the most dense ocean water?
At the surface
In the middle
At the bottom
Lake Michigan
- 8. Multiple Choice
Near the North Pole, the water is super cold and salty, so it _______________.
sinks
rises
evaporates
condenses
- 9. Multiple Choice
In both the Indian and Pacific Oceans, deep water begins to warm up and ______________, joining back in with the Gulf Stream.
sinks
rises
freezes
evaporates
- 10. Multiple Choice
Warm water is __________ cold water.
more dense than
less dense than
the same density as
- 11. Multiple Choice
Salt water is ____________ fresh water.
more dense than
less dense than
the same density as
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