Energy
Surface Currents
Deep Ocean Currents
The Ocean
Miscellaneous
100
This warms Earth up with thermal energy through radiation
What is the sun?
100
Surface currents are driven by two major factors.
What are WIND and the Coriolis Effect?
100
What is created AS COLD, DENSE WATER SINKS AND FLOWS BENEATH WARM, LESS DENSE WATER?
Convection Current/Cell
100
The Antarctic Circumpolar current is the world's largest current, it's temperature is relatively ______.
What is COLD?
100
Salinity means.
What is THE AMOUNT OF SALT DISSOLVED IN WATER?
200
Warmer water has more energy and is _____ dense.
What is LESS dense?
200
Upwelling, the rising of water, helps ______________ by bringing cold, nutrient rich waters to the surface.
What are MARINE ANIMALS?
200
The current off the coast of California on the west side of North America is a _____ current.
What is COOL?
200
Four things generate ocean currents.
What are WINDS, landforms, CORIOLIS EFFECT, and SEAWATER DENSITY?
200
It takes ______ years for water to circulate through the entire thermohaline current.
What is 1000 years?
300
Molecules in a more dense fluid are ________ together.
What is CLOSER together?
300
The patterns of moving water in the upper 1000 meters of the ocean.
What are SURFACE OCEAN CURRENTS?
300
Generally, the speed of deep ocean currents is ________ than surface ocean currents.
What is SLOWER?
300
The "Global Ocean Conveyor Belt" refers to surface and deep ocean currents working together do two things.
What are MOVE ENERGY and IMPACT CLIMATE?
300
When ice forms in polar regions on top of the cold water, the resulting water has _____ salinity and is _____ dense, so it sinks.
What is MORE salinity and is MORE dense?
400
All areas of Earth's surface don't receive the same amount of solar energy because...
What is THE TILT OF THE EARTH'S AXIS?
400
What is THE CORIOLIS EFFECT?
400
When a current comes in contact with a landmass or continent.
What is IT CHANGES DIRECTION?
400
The oceans cover this amount of Earth's surface.
What is 70%?
400
What is CONVECTION?
500
Energy passed in wind is ___________ energy.
What is KINETIC energy?
500
Define ocean current.
What is A CONTINUOUS, DIRECTED MOVEMENT OF SEA WATER GENERATED BY A NUMBER OF FACTORS, including Earth's rotation, temperature causing density differences, wind, and landforms?
500
What is Thermohaline Circulation?
The circulation of water due to density differences created by variations in temperature and salt content
"thermo = temperature and haline = salt"
500
Salt makes up _____ percent of the oceans.
What is 3.47%?
500
A large, circular surface current pattern found in each ocean.
What is GYRE?