Ocean Surface Currents
Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called
What is Surface Currents
Finding Nemo may have added just a little poetic license to the real ways of the ocean. The is not the fast-flowing warp-tube as it’s portrayed in the movie – it’s an even better ride than that.
What is the East Australian Current?
When currents meet landforms, they change what.
What is Direction?
Surface currents ? affect the climate in many parts of the world
What is greatly?
Waves are made of two main components - ? and ?
What are crests and troughs?
The Gulf Stream transports times more water than all of the rivers in the world.
What is 25
The East Australian Current transports a staggering million cubic meters of water southward each second
What is 40
This is known as?
What is continental deflection
Some surface currents ? and some ? coastal areas year-round.
What is warm and cool?
A ? is the highest point.
What is a crest?
Surface currents can reach depths of several hundred meters and lengths of several thousand
What is kilometers.
Speeds in the core of the EAC are among the strongest in the South Pacific, up to mph an hour.
What is 4.5
Warm water currents begin near the ? and carry warm water to other parts of the ocean.
What is the Equator?
This causes changes in the ? that disrupt the climate in many parts of the world
What is the atmosphere?
The ? is the lowest point.
What is a trough?
Global winds blowing across the Earth’s surface create
What is surface currents.
The East Australian Current does flow along the coast of Australia
What is the East
Coldwater currents begin closer to the poles and carry ? to other parts of the ocean. The map below shows the Earth's surface currents.
What is cold water?
Deep currents are ?-like movements of ocean water far below the ocean surface.
What is stream-like?
A ? is the distance between two adjust crests or troughs.
What is a wavelength?
Because of the , currents in the Northern Hemisphere turn clockwise while currents in the Southern Hemisphere turn counterclockwise.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
That is the equivalent of Olympic swimming pools flowing along our coastline, every second.
What is 16,000
If Earth's surface were covered only with water, currents would travel in a ? across the Earth.
What is a fixed pattern?
Starting at a depth of about ? meters, the water temperature becomes colder as the depth increases.
What is 200 meters?
? is the vertical distance between a waves crest and its trough.
What is wave height?