1. Ocean Circulation What ya gotta know…

2. Monsoons What they are. Where they occur. http://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ge og101/textbook/circulation/regional_scale_ wind.htmhttp://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ge og101/textbook/circulation/regional_scale_ wind.htm

3. Ocean Surface Currents Arctic Atlantic Indian Pacific Southern

4. Arctic

5. North Atlantic

6. South Atlantic

7. North Pacific

8. South Pacific

9. Indian

10. Southern

11. What is Moby Duck, and what does it teach us about ocean circulation? http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134923863/ moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are- lost-at-seahttp://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134923863/ moby-duck-when-28-800-bath-toys-are- lost-at-sea http://www.seos- project.eu/modules/oceancurrents/oceanc urrents-c02-ws01-s.htmlhttp://www.seos- project.eu/modules/oceancurrents/oceanc urrents-c02-ws01-s.html

12. What has been happening to Arctic Sea Ice over the past several years, and what does this hold in store for our climate? http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/cgi-bin/seaice- monitor.cgi

13. How do ocean currents play a role in the location of deserts?

14. Thermohaline Conveyor Belt What drives it How long it takes to make a full circle. Its importance to global climate How it can be altered

15. The Younger Dryas What happened, and when. How it affected the thermohaline circulation How it affected climate.

16. Volvo Ocean Race What ocean are they in? What global wind is propelling them?

17. Ekman Transport What’s the average direction at the surface? Beneath the surface? What pattern in the ocean does the interaction of E.T. and global winds form?

18. Ocean/Climate Oscillations Be able to interpret a given phase of AO, ENSO, NAO or PDO from a set of data provided.

19. Global Winds and Pressure Belts 90°N 60°N 30°N 0° 30°S 40°S 50°S 60°S 90°S