Multiple Choice
Problems arise during an El Niño event when
A) warm surface water, depleted of its nutrients, flows toward the South American coast.
B) displaced organisms crowd into adjacent habitats.
C) warm surface waters evaporate more rapidly, causing increased rainfall in every terrestrial biome.
D) ocean current systems reverse their flow directions and impede migrating marine fish and mammals.
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