OCEAN 102 Practice Midterm Exam Questions with All Correct Answers
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OCEAN 102 Practice Midterm Exam Questions with All Correct Answers
Extreme weather threatens human health in all of the following ways except:
a) Extreme weather events can lead to fatalities.
b) Fires caused by extreme weather events can lead to poor air quality.
c) Extreme weather events can...
OCEAN 102 Practice Midterm Exam
Questions with All Correct Answers
Extreme weather threatens human health in all of the following ways except:
a) Extreme weather events can lead to fatalities.
b) Fires caused by extreme weather events can lead to poor air quality.
c) Extreme weather events can lead to increases in the spread of disease.
d) Extreme weather events can threaten the availability of pristine drinking water.
e) Extreme weather events can lead to increases in food supply. - Answer-e) Extreme
weather events can lead to increases in food supply.
Economic disaster losses are ____________ in developed countries and fatalities are
____________ in developing countries. Fill in the blanks with the best word choices
from the
list below.
a) lower; lower
b) higher; higher
c) higher; lower
d) lower; higher - Answer-b) higher; higher
True or False: The top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as Earth's entire
atmosphere.
a) True
b) False - Answer-a) True
True or False: As Earth has warmed over the last century, the oceans have absorbed
most of
that heat.
a) True
b) False - Answer-a) True
Specific heat is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise ____ of a substance by
____.
Fill in the blanks with the best word choice from the list below.
a) 10 grams; 100 degrees Celsius
b) 100 calories; 10 degrees Fahrenheit
c) 1 gram; 1 degree Celsius
d) 1 calorie;1 degree Fahrenheit
e) 1 degree Celsius; 1 calorie - Answer-c) 1 gram; 1 degree Celsius
, Why does ice float on water?
a) Ice is more dense than liquid water.
b) Ice is less dense than liquid water.
c) Ice is heavier than liquid water.
d) Ice is colder than liquid water. - Answer-b) Ice is less dense than liquid water.
In the tropics, high evaporation of water from the surface of the ocean causes surface
waters
to become ____________ salty and _________ dense. Fill in the blanks with the best
word
choice from the list below.
a) more; more
b) more; less
c) less; more
d) less; less - Answer-a) more; more
Thermohaline circulation is driven by changes in:
a) Specific heat and temperature
b) Temperature and salinity
c) Salinity and specific heat
d) Wind and salinity
e) Wind and temperature - Answer-b) Temperature and salinity
Why does deep water form at the poles?
a) The volume of the water decreases as it is cooled.
b) Water becomes less saline as ice forms.
c) There is nowhere for the water to go but down.
d) The water becomes lighter as it in cooled by ice.
e) The water becomes more dense as it is cooled by the atmosphere. - Answer-e) The
water becomes more dense as it is cooled by the atmosphere.
Which of the following does not contribute to the sinking of surface waters in the North
Atlantic?
a) Cooling winds
b) Evaporation
c) Low air temperatures
d) Rainfall
e) Sea ice formation - Answer-d) Rainfall
On average, how long does it take for a parcel of water to travel around the world as
part of
the global conveyor belt?
a) About 700-1000 years
b) About 70-100 days
c) Exactly 70-100 years
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