List four types of local winds and describe their formation
What will be an ideal response?
Students may choose to describe any of the following: land/sea breeze; mountain/valley breeze; chinook winds; katabatic winds; country breezes; Santa Ana winds
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The question is based on color Maps T-20a and T-20b (in the back of the Lab Manual) and Figure 32-3, a black-and-white stereogram, showing the entrenched meanders of the Green River near Canyonlands National Park, Utah. A larger portion of this region is shown in color Map T-7 in the back of the Lab Manual. What will be an ideal response?
Zooxanthellae are
A) algae that provide oxygen and nutrients for coral, and receive CO2 and a habitat from the coral. B) a type of coral that exists mostly in the Pacific Ocean. C) any organism that lives in the hadal zone. D) any animal that lives in a lentic system for part of its life and on land in another part of its life.
Salt wedge estuaries form their circulation pattern due to the rapid river outflow mixing with ocean
water. Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The rate at which the oceans absorb carbon dioxide is controlled by ________.
A. mixing and circulation processes B. temperature, salinity and pressure C. pH D. temperature, salinity and pressure, pH, and mixing and circulation processes