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GEOL 1033, General Oceanography Q24 REVISED Study Question Set 24 (Lesson 33) Question and Answer Sheet: Name: __________________________ ID #: ____________________ 1. After solar radiation penetrates the atmosphere to the Earth's surface it is partly converted to... ____________________ 2. Reflected solar radiation by clouds is referred to as Earth's ______________. 3-4. What are the two major greenhouse gases? 3. _____________ 4. _____________ 5-7. Explain what is meant by the greenhouse effect. ___________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 8. If carbon dioxide in our atmosphere continues to increase, what will happen to sea level? It will... ____________________ 9-12. Regarding the question above, give two reasons why: 9-10. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 11-12. ___________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 13. The formation of what major atmospheric phenomena is the result of the uneven heating of Earth's surface? ____________________ 14. Surface ocean currents are driven by Earth's... ___________________. 15. The greater heat capacity of water results in daytime higher temperatures over land and the development of ______________________________________ breezes. 16. Average yearly temperature ranges are greater for inland (continental) areas than for what marine regions at similar latitudes? ____________________ 17. In the northern hemisphere, surface ocean currents will be deflected by the Coriolis effect to the "right" or to the "left"? ____________________ 18. The explanation of the formation of a coastal upwelling along the western coast of a continent in the southern hemisphere when the wind is blowing northward involves the ______________________ _____________________. (2 words) 19. Coastal upwellings occur over only about what percent of the oceans? _______ 20. Coastal upwellings may account for nearly 50% of biological productivity because of the return to the photic zone of productivity-limiting _____________.
