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You work for “The Asylum”, a movie studio that makes low budget, low quality rip-offs of major Hollywood blockbusters (sometimes two at once).  You’re currently producing a movie about a baby fish separated from her mother (“Finding Renesmee”).  The baby fish and her mom lived in the Pacific offshore of Forks Washington.  A major plot point is that momma fish has to swin against surface currents as she swims in search of her baby.  She swims south toward southern California.  Do you have the science right?

Thermohaline circulation moves water between all the ocean basins?

How did John Wahl prevent the “double tsunami” disaster in “Tidal Wave: No Escape”?

The general trend of global mean temperature during the Cenozoic (last 65 million years) has been:

Well the farm-life daycare didn’t quite go to plan.  Turns out parents are really sensitive when their babies turn blue from nitrate poisoning.  Wanting to be closer to clean water you’ve decided to build your next daycare along a river.  A number of lots are available.  All are situated right on the banks of the river.  Given that, which lot should you choose if you want the babies to be safe?

The Gulf Stream flows to the northeast off the east coast of the US?

Over the last 2 million years, sea-level has varied by about how much?

On which coast does the action in Tidal Wave: No Escape take place?

Carbon dioxide is as high as it has been in the last 300 years.

Faster plate spreading rates at mid-ocean ridges is a possible cause of higher sea level in the past.  Which of the following is another possible cause of higher sea level in the past?