vocabulary
surface currents
deep ocean currents
climate
random
100
amount of salt in something
What is salinity?
100
wind
What is the cause of surface currents?
100
The mixing of ocean water throughout the entire ocean?
What is the global conveyor belt?
100
The climate is warmer and wetter
What is an area receiving water from a current that flows from the gulf?
100
Thermal Energy
What is what all currents carry?
200
large mass of moving water
What is current?
200
This happens every 2 to 7 years in the Pacific Ocean and causes wild weather in California and Australia.
What is El Nino?
200
Density of the water because of salinity and temperature
What is the cause of deep ocean currents?
200
Climate is cold and dryer
What is an area near a cold ocean current coming from the poles
200
Temperature and salinity
What causes the density of water to change?
300
The amount of mass in a given volume
What is density?
300
There are 5 of these in the ocean: 2 in the Atlantic, 2 in the Pacific, 1 in the Indian
What is gyre?
300
Below 400 meters
What is deep ocean current?
300
warms the air above an area
What is surface current?
300
Cannot evaporate or freeze
What is salt?
400
Total amount of energy in something (heat)
What is Thermal Energy?
400
In the direction the gyres move in the northern hemisphere
What is clockwise
400
The global conveyor belt begins
What is the the Northern Atlantic?
400
mild, wet climate in much of western Europe
What is Northern Atlantic drift that flows from the gulf to the poles carrying warm water?
400
When the surface currents move opposite of the deep ocean currents
What is the global conveyor belt?
500
The fastest moving warm current in the Northern Atlantic
What is the gulf stream.
500
The phenomenon caused by the rotation of the Earth
What is Coriolis Effect
500
Pattern of ocean currents driven by density
What is Thermohaline Circulation
500
8,6,10,9,7,3
What is a cold current from the poles?
500
Surface waters in the eastern pacific are colder than normal
What is La Nina
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