Ocean Surface Currents
Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called what?
What are Surface currents
The East Australian Current flows along The east coast of what Continent
What is Australia
When currents meet land forms, they change direction, this is known as what?
What is continental deflection
Deep currents are stream-like movements of ocean water far below the surface of the what?
What is the ocean
Waves are made of two main components - crests and what?
What are troughs
Surface currents flow like rivers in distinct patterns around the what?
What is the Earth
The great Australian current does flow southward from what reef?
What is the Great barrier reef
Warm water currents begin near the what?
What is the equator
Temperature and what affect the density of ocean water?
What is salinity
Wave height is the vertical distance between a waves Trough and its what?
What is its crest
Surface currents are controlled by four factors: global winds, the Coriolis effect, continental deflections, and What?
What is the water temperature
the what transports a staggering 40 million cubic meters of water every second?
What is The East Australian Current
Warm-water currents create warmer climates in coastal areas that would otherwise be much cooler like what large island?
What is Iceland
Ocean water gets what when it becomes saltier or gets colder?
What is denser
Ocean waves form because of friction between the wind and the surface of the what?
What is the water?
Global winds blowing across the Earth’s surface create what?
What are Surface Currents
The East Australian Current is 100 km by what?
what is 1.5 km
Cold-water currents create cooler climates in coastal areas that would be much warmer, like this city in a warm american state.
What is San Francisco
Starting at a depth of about how many meters, the water temperature becomes colder.
What is 200 meters
Sound can travel through air, water, or what?
What are solids
one of the longest surface currents, transports 25 times more water than all of the rivers in the world is called what
What is the gulf stream
East Australian Current is much bigger and much wilder than in what movie?
What is finding Nemo
f Earth's surface were covered only with water, currents would travel in a fixed pattern across the what?
What is the Earth
The denser water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the equator in the form of a what current?
What is a deep current
Ocean waves are called mechanical waves because they travel through what?
What is a medium