El nino - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

APES Module 11 Question and answers already passed 2023/2024 E.N.S.O - correct answer El Nino Southern Oscillation What are ocean currents driven by? - correct answer combination of: 1) temperature 2) gravity 3) prevailing winds 4) the Coriolis effect 5) the locations of continents. Warm water, like warm air _____ and _____ - correct answer expands; rises Gyre - correct answer A large-scale pattern of water circulation that moves clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclo...

What are the categories of Point Source water pollution? correct answers Sewage treatment plants and industrial discharges Which is mandated for wastewater pretreatment programs? correct answers Industries discharging effluent into municipal sewer systems Which waterborne disease was associated with the Broad Street Well? correct answers Cholera "blue baby disease" is caused by: correct answers Nitrates List 3 waterborne diseases: correct answers Cholera, Pfisteria, & Typhoid fever...

Chapter 1 Analyzing Economic Problems Solutions to Review Questions 1. What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics? Microeconomics studies the economic behavior of individual economic decision makers, such as a consumer, a worker, a firm, or a manager. Macroeconomics studies how an entire national economy performs, examining such topics as the aggregate levels of income and employment, the levels of interest rates and prices, the rate of inflation, and the nature of b...

Main factors that affect weather & climate - Answer-1) Temperature 2)Precipitation Weather - Answer-atmospheric conditions for small geographic areas over a short period of time Climate - Answer-weather patterns for large geographic areas over long periods of time Reflection - Answer-light is redirected with no heat transformation Absorption - Answer-light is absorbed by the gas and transformed to heat Transmission - Answer-most light passes through and only small amounts are absorbed and ...

APES Unit 4 questions well answered 100% correct 2024/2025Which of the lettered choices in the soil profile above represents the region with the greatest concentration of organic material? - correct answer A El Nino and La Nina are natural phenomena associated with changing water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. The occurrence of these events can result in changes in global weather and ocean circulation patterns. Which of the following changes in eastern Pacific Ocean food webs is typicall...

Lois offers Joe, a building inspector, money to overlook the violations in her new warehouse. Joe excepts the money and overlooks the violations. Lois is charged with a crime of bribery. The crime occurred when -:- Lois offered the bribe Slate, the president of Silly Financial Investments, Inc. (SFII), and Wilma, SFII's accountant, are charged with a crime, after the police search SFII's offices. Under the exclusionary rule -:- Illegally obtained evidence must be excluded from a tri...

NYSTCE CST 245 Arts and Sciences FINAL EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS Altimeter - CORRECT ANSWER-an instrument that uses air pressure to record height Anemometer - CORRECT ANSWER-an instrument to measure wind speed Angiosperm - CORRECT ANSWER-a group of plans that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary, which may mature into a fruit Annuals - CORRECT ANSWER-plants that die after one growing season Asexual Reproduction - CORRECT ANSWER-reproduction involving only one parent Atmosphere ...

Gulf Stream - Answer powerful, warm Atlantic Ocean current that starts at tip of FL and follows east. coastline of US before crossing Atlantic thermocline - Answer rapid temp drecrease with depth a few hundred meters below surface upwelling - Answer vertical transport of deep ocean waters upward results in cooler surface water typically along west coast of continents El Nino Southern Oscillation - Answer atmospheric oscillation over S Pacific Ocean seesaw patter of reversing surface ...

OCEAN 320 Final Exam | Questions with Verified Answers DDT would be characterized as this kind of molecule...... chlorinated hydrocarbon After 100 years of plankton studies which used small nets to capture the tiny floating creatures, what major plankton discovery was made in the 1990's of a type more numerous than any other? bacterial nanoplankton As far as harmful science is concerned, which two of the following are a combustible mix according to Carl Sagan? (select two) - power - ignorance...

AP Environmental science unit 4 correct 100upwelling of deep water nutrients increases - ANSWER which of the following is not likely to occur in an el nino event? hawaiian islands - ANSWER which of the following is not created by converging plate boundaries temp, precipitation - ANSWER the two most important factors representing climate would be temperate grassland - ANSWER beetles, spiders, grasshoppers, earthworms, prairy dogs, rabbits, meadowlarks, cayootes, hawks cool nutrient ri...