When sea ice forms, the injection of salt from brine rejection and cooling of surface water _______ the density of the surface water.

Worldwide, mountain glaciers are predominantly _______.

The color of red clay is due to _______.

Most of the ocean is divided into _______ horizontal depth zones based on density, and known as the _______.

Atmospheric or oceanic _______ can be thought of as a weight of the overlying air or water acting on one unit area of horizontal surface.

In the Southern Hemisphere, trade winds typically blow from the _______.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) _______.

Today, sedimentation rates are the highest _______.

Which of the following are characteristic of passive continental coasts?

The thermohaline circulation is driven primarily by slight differences in ocean _______.