Briefly summarize the El Niño Southern Oscillation.
What will be an ideal response?
In anEl Niño Southern Oscillation, winds that usually blow more-or-less constantly from east to west weaken or reverse direction. This allows the warmer waters of the western Pacific to move toward the coast of South America. A horizontal zone of gradual temperature change called a thermocline, separating warm and cold waters, sinks in the eastern Pacific. These changes result in drier weather in some areas and wetter weather in other areas.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
How do scientists measure melting of the Antarctic ice sheets?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following does NOT represent an exchange value?
A) U-Pick strawberries for $4 B) orange juice in the supermarket C) a salad eaten in a restaurant D) an orange picked and consumed E) apple pies for sale at a Farmers' Market
________ occurs when magnetic minerals in lavas align their magnetic fields with magnetic north, preserving a record of that pole's location at that moment in time
A) A mantle plume B) Paleomagnetism C) Magnetic reversal D) Seafloor spreading