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Jeopardy

Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. Winds and Cells. As the world turns. Water Currents. Figures of Marine Lore. Discrepant

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Jeopardy

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Winds and Cells As the world turns Water Currents Figures of Marine Lore Discrepant Events 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. This describes the movement of a substance due to uneven heating

  5. What is convection?

  6. The equatorial zone of few winds and low pressure.

  7. What are the doldrums?

  8. The area of low winds, so named due to floating equine in the ocean during the exploration era.

  9. What are the horse latitudes?

  10. The prevailing winds in the North America.

  11. What are westerlies?

  12. The phenomenon that drives the global movement of wind.

  13. What are pressure differences?

  14. The place on earth which receives no sun in the winter and 24 hours of sun in the summer.

  15. What are the poles?

  16. The season when the North America is facing closet to the sun.

  17. What is summer?

  18. The spot on the Earth which receives the most solar radiation.

  19. What is the equator?

  20. The reason the sun does not travel as high in the sky during our winter.

  21. What is, we are tilted away from the sun?

  22. The direction that storms spin in the Southern Hemisphere.

  23. What is counterclockwise?

  24. The name of the warm water current that bathes both Florida and parts of Europe.

  25. What is the Gulf Stream?

  26. The name of the cold water current that travels down California’s coast.

  27. What is the California Current?

  28. Southern California’s warmer current, which flows inside of the Channel Islands.

  29. What is the Californian Countercurrent?

  30. The circuit of mid-latitude currents around the periphery of an ocean basin.

  31. What is a gyre?

  32. The name of any one of the five geostrophic gyres.

  33. What are the North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic or Indian Ocean gyres?

  34. Clownfish who lost his way.

  35. Who is Nemo?

  36. Six time surf champion, Quicksilver spokesman and model.

  37. Who is Kelly Slater?

  38. Disney’s Little Mermaid.

  39. Who is Arielle?

  40. French oceanographic pioneer and inventor of SCUBA technology.

  41. Who is Jacques Cousteau?

  42. Melville’s sea captain, who searched for the great white whale.

  43. Who is Captain Ahab?

  44. The phenomenon describing why storms spin.

  45. What is the Coriolis Effect?

  46. The abnormal warming of sea surface temperatures due to the cessation of equatorial winds.

  47. What is El Nino?

  48. Circulation pattern in which deep, cold, nutrient rich water moves to the surface.

  49. What is upwelling?

  50. The explanation for the presence of a tropical island offshore of England.

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