Mid-term Review Earth Science

Hurricane season in the Atlantic ocean is:

Gyres in the Northern Hemisphere are counterclockwise.

Warm are is __________________ than cooler air.

A biome refers to a large ecosystem that has its own weather, plants, and animals.

What is the most common element in the Earth's atmosphere?

Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

Which is a function of the ozone layer?

Without an atmosphere, life on Earth would not exist.

In which layer of the atmosphere does weather take place?

The main cause of surface currents is:

Which layer of the atmosphere is the most dense?

Heat always flows from higher to lower _____________.

"Thermo" refers to temperarure.

How do hurricanes form?

What does El Nino do?

The Coriolis Effect is due to:

What is the relationship between temperature and altitude?

What happens when hurricanes move onto land?

To be classified as a hurricane, wind speeds must be greater than:

What causes global winds and ocean currents to form?

Which biome has the lowest precipitation?

Warm ocean currents originate near:

Where is the Sargasso Sea?

Another word for "salinity" is "saltiness."

Which of the following is a type of ocean current?