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Oceanography Test
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1The water in a wave out at sea moves:
- Atoward the shore
- Btowards the equator
- Cin small vertical circles
- Dleft to right
2During the ice ages, continental shelves:
- Acome above water
- Bsink below water
- Csubduct
- Dmelt
3Which of the following can NOT be used to remove salt from sea water?
- Aevaporation
- Bfilters
- Cfreezing
- Dmembranes
4Gases dissolve better in _________ water.
- Acold
- Bwarm
- Csalty
- Dgases dont dissolve in the ocean
5Surface currents are driven by:
- Adensity
- Bfriction
- Ctemperature
- Dwind
6The tide that forms when the sun pulls at right angles to the moon is the ----- tide.
- Adirect
- Bneap
- Copposite
- Dspring
7When the faster moving top part of a wave topples over the slower bottom part, the result is a foamy mass of water called a:
- Acrest
- Brip current
- Cbreaker
- Dwhitecap
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