Newest Material Flashcards
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What’s El Niño?
a warming of the ocean surfaces in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
La Niña
cooler than normal ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator.
The Coriolis effect
The deflection of winds/currents as a resulted of the spinning of the earth.
How are winds and currents similar?
The movement of winds across the surface of the ocean creates currents.
What’s the relationship between latitude and linear speed?

What is the relationship between an ocean‘s current temperature and their general direction of travel in northern and Southern hemispheres?
The relationship is that ocean currents regulate global climate.
What’s a gyre?
Ocean circulation
What causes gyres?
Prevailing winds
Gyre names
North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Indian
What is the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect occurs when the suns energy goes through our atmosphere and heats up the earth but gases prevent some of it from returning back up to space.
What’s the effect of the greenhouse effect?
A warmer planet
El Niño moves, how?
Australia to South America
La Niña moves, how
South America to Australia
