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Question 1

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The Brazilian Current flows in which direction?

a. Southwesterly

b. Northerly

c. Northwesterly

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Question 2

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What is the name of the current that is considered as an extension of the Gulf Stream that brings warmer water in the
Norwegian coasts even in winter season?

a. West Wind Drift

b. Greenland Current

c. North Atlantic Drift

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Question 3

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A ship steaming across the North Pacific from Japan to Seattle is likely to experience:

a. Favorable currents for the entire crossing

b. There is no current that can be experienced during that entire crossing

c. Adverse currents for the entire crossing

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Question 4

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In the N. Hemisphere, the major ocean currents tend to flow in what direction?

a. anti-clockwise around the N. Atlantic and N. Pacific Ocean

b. counterclockwise except the Gulf Stream

c. clockwise around the N. Atlantic and N. Pacific Ocean

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Question 5

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As the South Indian Ocean Current approaches the coast of Africa, it divides the main part flowing south to form which
warm current?

a. Agulhas Current

b. Canary Current

c. Benguela Current

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Question 6

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The Benguela Current flows in a what direction along the SW coast of Africa?

a. Easterly

b. Northwesterly

c. Southwesterly

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Question 7

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Which of the following currents is responsible for the movement of icebergs into the North Atlantic shipping lanes?

a. Benguela Current

b. Labrador Current

c. Kuro Shio Current

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Question 8

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Which current would you encounter on a direct passage from London, UK to Cape town, South Africa?

a. Benguela Current

b. Brazil Current

c. Norway Current         

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Question 9

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Which current in many respect is similar to the Gulf Stream?

a. Benguela Current

b. California Current

c. Kuro Shio Current

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Question 10

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The cold current which meets the warm Gulf Stream between latitudes 40° and 43° North to form the 
cold wall is called:

a. Norwegian Current

b. North Cape Current

c. Labrador Current

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Question 1

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Which type of currents is caused primarily by winds that blow in certain patterns because of the Earth's spin and the
Coriolis Effect?

a. Kuro Shio Current

b. warm current

c. ocean surface current

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Question 2

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Which of the following circulations is the more vigorous and is configured as gyres that dominate an ocean region?

a. thermo-haline circulation

b. wind-driven circulation

c. global current circulation

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Question 3

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Which of the following type of currents affects the water below the pycnocline (90% of ocean water) and are primarily
driven by the density differences?

a. ocean surface currents

b. warm currents

c. deep currents

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Question 4

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Which of the following circulations is more sluggish, with a typical speed of 1 cm (0.4 inch) per second, but this flow
extends to the seafloor and forms circulation patterns that envelop the global ocean?

a. global-wind circulation

b. thermo-haline circulation

c. wind-driven circulation

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Question 5

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In the whole world there is a total of how many major ocean-wide gyres?

a. 4

b. 3

c. 5
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Question 6

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With regards to wind driven circulation, on which layer of the oceans it is stronger?

a. on the surface layer

b. all the way to the sea floor

c. on the sub surface layer due to the Ekmann spiral

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Question 7

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For each of the major ocean-wide gyres the western and eastern parts are flanked by boundary currents. What is the
characteristic of the western boundary current?

a. strong and narrow

b. may  be strong or weak depending on the location

c. weak and broad

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Question 8

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Which of the following type of currents affects the surface water above the pycnocline and are primarily driven by major
wind belts?

a. ocean surface currents

b. cold currents

c. deep currents

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Question 9

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A major cause of the regular movement pattern of the ocean surface currents, what is the name of the wind that blow in
certain patterns because of the Earth's spin and the Coriolis Effect?

a. Prevailing winds

b. the westerly winds

c. the easterly winds

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Question 10

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For each of the major ocean-wide gyres the western and eastern parts are flanked by boundary currents. What is the
characteristic of an eastern boundary current?

a. weak and broad

b. may be strong or weak depending on the location

c. Strong and narrow

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Question 1

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Amongst the various factor that causes the current are the following, EXCEPT: 

a. Thermal Variation

b. Coriolis Force

c. Gravitational Force

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Question 2

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Of the two major categories of Ocean Gyres, which of the following has anti-cyclonic circulation features?

a. all gyres have anti-cyclonic circulation features

b. sub-polar gyres

c. subtropical gyres

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Question 3

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Which of the following do not belong to the two major categories  of Ocean Gyres?

a. Sub-polar Gyres

b. Antarctic Gyres

c. Subtropical Gyres 
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Question 4

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Why does the ocean play an important role in the Earth’s climate and in global temperature regulation?

a. Because the oceans cover around 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface.

b. Because the CO2 is absorbed by the oceans.

c. Because only the oceans absorb the heat of the whole world

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Question 5

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Which of the following statements best defines current?

a. Current is the directional movement of water that is generated continuously by forces acting on the water
including temperature, density and gravity

b. It is a continuous, directed movement of the sea generated by a number of forces acting upon the water including
the wind, the Coriolis force, and the temperature and salinity differences.

c. It is the direction of continuous movement of water of the sea generated by a number of forces acting upon the
water, including the wind, the Coriolis force, and the temperature and density differences.

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Question 6

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Which statement best describes wind-driven circulation?

a. It is the circulation forced by wind stress on the sea surface, inducing a momentum exchange.

b. It is the circulation imposed at the sea surface by exchange of ocean heat and water with the atmosphere, inducing
a buoyancy exchange

c. None of the choices describes wind-driven circulation

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Question 7

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What are the primary driving forces of convection in the thermo-haline circulation?

a. High temperature and high salinity

b. Low temperature and low salinity

c. Low temperature and high salinity

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Question 8

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What is referred to as the large system of circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns and forces created by
Earth's rotation?

a. Ocean Gyres

b. Deep Ocean Current

c. Global Circulation

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Question 9

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Of the two types Of Ocean Circulation which one is driven by the variations in water density imposed at the sea surface by
exchange of ocean heat and water with the atmosphere?

a. wind-driven circulation

b. prevailing wind-derived current

c. thermo-haline circulation

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Question 10

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Of the two major categories of Ocean Gyres, which of the following has cyclonic circulation features?

a. Subtropical gyres

b. all gyres have cyclonic circulation features

c. sub-polar gyres

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