Currents
What are currents?
Streams of water that flow constantly and move and different directions?
What are prevailing winds?
Prevailing winds are strong winds that blow in different directions across the world?
What is El Niño?
El Niño is a climate pattern across the tropical pacific?
does energy transfer from the sun to the air or to the surface and then the air?
Energy transfers from sun to a surface then to the airor?
How do ocean currents affect the air temperature around it?
depending on if it’s a warm or cold current and if the air is warm or cold it could either warm or co down the air around it?
How do prevailing winds affect ocean currents?
They push the currents along?
Could El Niño cause flooding?
Yes?
Can energy From the air transfer to a surface?
Yes?
What direction does warm currents come from?
The equator?
What effects can El Niño have on prevailing winds?
the winds changing speed or reversing direction altogether.
What effects does el niño have on ocean currents and the air around it?
El Niño could cause the currents to speed up slow down or reverse which would warm or cool the air around it?
What effects the amount of energy transferring from the sun to a surface then to air?
Latitud?
what determines the direction of ocean current?
preva winds and the position of continents?
Why in some places near the equator are still warm while most are not?
Because the prevailing winds are oust a cold currents and by there?
How often does El Niño occur?
3-7 years?
What would happen if there was no surface?
The temperature would drop a lot?
How do deep ocean currents move?
When colder water sinks and push the water beneath it in a certain directio?
What is the Coriolis effect?
The Earth's rotation causes moving air and water to be deflected which further shapes wind directions?
How does El Niño happen?
El Niño happens from a combination of warming sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and weakened trade winds?
How does energy transfer?
From hot to cold?