Ocean surface currents
Surface currents can reach depths of several hundred meters and lengths of?
What are several thousand kilometers!
Deep currents are mainly controlled by increases in ____ ____.
When currents meet landforms, they do what?
What is change direction
Waves are made of what two main components?
What are the crest and trough
The East Australian Current transports a staggering ____ ____ cubic meters of water southward each second
What is 40 million
Global winds blowing across the Earth’s surface create?
What are surface currents
Ocean water gets denser when it becomes ____ or gets colder.
What is saltier.
Warm water currents begin where?
What is the equator.
The crest is a _____ point of a wave
What is highest
The current is almost ___ km wide,
What is 100
Just as with winds, the rotation of the Earth causes surface currents to move in _____ _____ rather than straight lines.
What are curved paths
Starting at a depth of about ____ ____, the water temperature becomes colder as the depth increases.
What is 200 meters.
Coldwater currents begin where?
What are the poles
The trough is ____ point of a wave.
What is lowest
The current is more than ____ km deep.
What is 1.5
Because of the Coriolis Effect, currents in the Northern Hemisphere turn ______?
What is clockwise!
The denser water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the equator in the form of a _____ ____.
Currents from the equator carry ____ water.
what is warm
A wavelength is a distance between two ____?
What are trough or crest
The EAC is more of a ___ rather than a tube as it is depicted in the movie, Nemo.
What is a ribbon
Currents in the Southern Hemisphere turn ____.
What is counterclockwise
____ ____ are stream-like movements of ocean water far below the ocean surface.
What are deep currants
Currents from the poles carry ____ water.
what is cold
Wave height is the ____ distance between a wave's crest and its trough.
What is vertical
The EAC is depicted as ___.
What is tube