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Which association is correct?
 
  A) vertical cloud...nimbostratu s
  B) high cloud...altostratus
  C) middle cloud...cirrus
  D) low cloud...stratus
  E) low cloud...cirrocumulu s

Question 2

Contrast temperature variations with depth in the high and low latitudes. Why do high-latitude waters generally lack a thermocline?
 
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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Surface waters are warmed by the Sun, so they generally have higher temperatures than deeper waters. As a result, tropical lower-latitude surface waters are warmer than high-latitude surface waters. As you go deeper in the water column, temperatures approach freezing, so there is a thermocline in low-latitude waters, while high-latitude surface water is only marginally warmer than the water at depth, so there is no thermocline.



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