How much heat energy is stored in the atmosphere?
3%
all of the above
1%
93%
What kind of wind patterns occurres during the Coriolis Effect?
They generate during slow-moving cyclones; also blow surface water aside.
What is the Global conveyor belt?
constant motion in the ocean
Explain what a warm current is?
The water is less dense, it contains less salt staying close to the surface.
How much heat energy is stored in the land?
1%
All of the above
3%
93%
The global ocean conveyor belt is a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity
True
False
Where does heat transfer starts?
the equator
In the Norwegian Sea, what happens with the ocean surface heat?
the atmosphere makes the water cooler and denser, causing it to sink to the bottom
How much heat energy is stored in the ocean?
93%
3%
All of the above
1%
Explain what a cold current is?
The water is dense, it contains a lot of salt and sinks to the bottom
Heat transfer moves quickly
False
True
Deep heat transport is primarily set by which strength and patterns
sun
surface winds
currents
What is vertical movement in the ocean?
upwellings or downwellings
What causes heat in the ocean?
Increased greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, which are known to be attributed to human emissions
Which way does the wind blow in the northern hemisphere?
To the right in the northern hemisphere (clockwise)
What is Thermocline?
the transition layer between the warmer mixed water at the surface and the cooler deep water below
Where does the Global ocean conveyor belt start?
Norwegian
What are thermohaline currents?
(thermo = temperature; haline = salinity) in the deep ocean and wind-driven currents on the surface
The Coriolis effect is known for doing what?
is largely responsible for upwelling in coastal regions, around the equator and the tropics.
Deep heat transport is only secondarily by in which area
low latitudes in the North Pacific.
high latitudes in the North Atlantic.
What would happen to surface currents if the Earth did not rotate?
The currents would only travel in one direction
The ocean in regulating Earth’s climate strongly depends on how surface winds change across different climates in both hemispheres at low and high latitudes.
True
False
Where is the heat being transferred to after it leaves the equator?
the poles
Surface currents are found in the Sunlight zone?
True
False
Where is most of the ocean's heat energy located?
the sunlight zone (200 to 4,000 feet)
the twilight zone (4,000 to 6,000 feet)
None of these (no feet)
the midnight zone (6,000 to 8,000 feet)
How many rubber ducks were lost at sea in 1992?
28,800
Where does the current go after it leaves Norwegian?
South to the equator towards Antartica
Heat transfer is distribution of warming which is not uniform
False
True
Heat Transfer does not depends on ocean water circulation.
False
True