North Equatorial Current: “a significant Pacific and Atlantic Ocean current that flows east-to-west between about 10° north and 20° north. It is the southern side of a clockwise subtropical gyre.”
Trade winds: “are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator”
Mar pacifico: “peaceful sea”
Gyre: “any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.”
Andesite line: “the most significant regional distinction in the Pacific. A petrologic boundary, it separates the deeper, mafic igneous rock of the Central Pacific Basin from the partially submerged continental areas of felsic igneous rock on its margins”
Mafic igneous rock
Aleutian arc
Subduction zone: “a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle”
Rodinia: a renaming of Pangaea (with a different proposed configuration)
Hypoxia: low oxygen levels
Grey whale
Monterey
Carmel
Highway one
Elephant seal
Pacific sanddab
California halibut
Starry flounder
California lizardfish
Rubberlip seaperch
Spiny dogfish
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