Describe how the ocean influences climate by moving heat and water? Give one example to justify your answer.

1 answer:

5 0

The oceans influence climate over long and short time-scales. On the longest time-scale of geologic time, the shape and location of the continents helps to determine the oceans' circulation patterns. Since continental plates drift at about 5 cm per year and mountain ranges rise by about 1 mm, it usually takes millions of years for new land formations to change the oceans. Patterns of ocean circulation and up-welling can also change much more rapidly, resulting in climate variations and fluctuations on a human time-scale. Records of global and, in particular, regional climate show periods lasting from years to centuries during which the climate was systematically different from earlier and later periods. Scientists believe that this behaviour is related to changes in the way the oceans store and transport heat, although the precise causes of these changes are not always clear.

You might be interested in

The graph of a function never has two different points with the same x-coordinate because_

storchak [24]

Answer:

a the graph of a function I hope it will help you please follow me

6 0

3 years ago

Why do clouds tend to form at 3pm and 6am

Verizon [17]

Clouds form as a result of the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere. They are made of tiny droplets of water. Clouds tend to form between 3pm and 6pm because this is when the region starts to loose or has completely lost the heat form the daily sun. Water vapor will condense once temperatures are low or are decreasing.

3 0

3 years ago

When sediments deposit in lakes or oceans, how do they lay? in large vertical mounds that spread out towards thin horizontal lay

Taya2010 [7]

"In flat horizontal layers" is the one among the following choices given in the question that describes the way how <span>sediments deposit in lakes or oceans. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option. I hope that this is the answer that has come to your desired help.</span>

8 0

3 years ago

Read 2 more answers

Why is it important to use a weakened virus in a vaccine?

PolarNik [594]

If you used a full active virus, that defeats the point of a vaccine. You will trigger your immune response, but since you would just be injecting the virus, it will make you sick, and your body will be less effective at fighting the pathogens.

Viruses in vaccines are weakened, so they essentially will not "fight" back. They most importantly just contains the antigen markers so the body can trigger the immune response, quickly eradicate the pathogen, and build up the memory cells to that virus.

Injecting a virus that is not weak will just be the same thing as if you got the virus, you will likely get sick.

6 0

3 years ago

In what way did gene therapy, the replacement of a faulty gene with a normal one, stimulate medical research?.

PSYCHO15rus [73]

Answer:

You need to understand how biotechnology impacts individuals, society, and/or the environment. You will be given scenarios with specific examples and asked to determine the impact.

8 0

3 years ago