Ocean Currents
What is a Ocean Current
What is a large volume of water flowing in a certain direction.
What is a Rip Current
What is a strong flow of water that pulls
What is the Coriolis Effect
What is a invisible force, caused by Earth spinning, makes winds and currents curve to the right in the north and to the left in the south.
What is a Density Current
What is a deep ocean current
What is a Surface Current
What is a type of ocean movement is caused by wind and moves water across the surface of the sea like a giant river.
What is the Gulf Stream?
What is the ocean current that flows along the U.S. East Coast and carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean.
How do you escape a rip current
What is to swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the current.
Currents form in _____ or _____ loops
What is small or large loops
What is Upwelling
What is the vertical movement of water toward the ocean’s surface.
What is Earth's major wind belt called
What is prevailing winds
How are Rip Currents caused
What is by pressure building up from uneven buildup of water from waves.
What do the shapes of continents and other land masses affect in the Coriolis Effect
What is the flow and speed of currents.
How long do scientist estimate the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt takes
What is around 1,000 Years
What is 400 m
What do prevailing winds influence
What is the formation of Ocean Currents and the direction they move.
How many percent of all beach rescues are related to Rip Currents
What is 80%
The Coriolis effect causes what to happen in the Northern hemisphere
What is to make Fluids such as air and water to curve right
When does Upwelling occur
What is when wind blows across the
ocean’s surface and pushes water away from an area. Deeper colder water then rises to replace it.
Surface currents carry warm or cold water ________ across the ocean’s surface
What is Horizontally
What is thermohaline circulation?
What is a global system of deep and surface ocean currents is driven by differences in temperature and salinity and is often called the "global conveyor belt."
What is 150
The Coriolis effect causes what to happen in the Southern hemisphere
What is to make Fluids such as air and water to curve left
What is a large circular movement of ocean water caused by wind and the Coriolis effect, forming rotating systems in the major oceans.
What is a Grye
What is 100km/day