The solar heating of Earth varies with latitude, due mostly to _____. 

Upwelling areas are _____. 

Heat capacity is a measure of the heat required to _____. 

_____ currents are the slow, deep currents that affect the vast bulk of seawater beneath the pycnocline. 

The angular shape of the water molecule makes it electrically asymmetrical, or _____.

The Hadley cells in the Southern Hemisphere produce ____ along the surface as air moves toward the equator. 

Because density is largely a function of temperature and salinity, the movement of water due to differences in density is called _____. 

When a hydrogen atom in one water molecule is attracted to the oxygen atom of an adjacent water molecule because each has an opposite charge, a _____ bond forms.   

North America’s most violent extratropical cyclones are the _____ that sweep the eastern seaboard in winter. 

_____ currents flow from east to west and west to east linking the eastern and western boundary currents.