Please answer all 5 questions for me. 1. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation can be

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Please answer all 5 questions for me.

1. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation can be best described as:

a. Relative changes between two different atmospheric pressure systems.

b. The relationship between sea surface temperature and atmospheric pressure.

c. Tidal differences between coastal Peru and Indonesia.

d. Variation in wind speed over the Pacific Ocean.

e. Wind speed and wind direction differences along the equator.

2. What is true about the formation of a spit?

a. It is formed from the erosion of tombolo’s.

b. It forms due to a transition of high wave energy to low wave energy.

c. It forms due to a transition of low wave energy to high wave energy.

d. A harbor is required for it’s formation

3. Which of those listed is an erosional feature found on a coastline?

a. Wave cut platform

b. Spit

c. Tombolo

d. Baymouth bar

4. What is beach drift?

a. The transportation of sand within the surf zone

b. The path the sand particles take along the beach face

c. The explanation as to the formation of a spit

d. Is not an important part of sand transportation along a coastline.

5. Sand is supplied to the California coastal region primarily by:

a. Coastal erosion

b. Local biological activity

c. Rivers that flow from the Sierra Nevada Mountains

d. Ocean floor upwelling

1) A, Relative changes between two different atmospheric pressure systems.

2) C, It forms due to a transition of low wave energy to high wave energy.

3) A, wave cut platform

4) B, The path the sand particles take along the beach face.

5) C Sand is supplied to the California coastal region primarily by RIVERS AND bluff erosion

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