Ocean Currents
This Atlantic current brings warm water and mild climates to Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This type of heat transfer involves hotter, less dense fluids rising.
What is convection?
Water with more of this is denser than water with less.
what is salt
This absorbs more heat without quickly changing temperature.
What is water?
When warm ocean water evaporates, it increases this in the air.
What is humidity?
This Pacific current carries cold water southward along the west coast of the United States.
What is the California Current?
Unequal heating of Earth's surface creates these patterns in the atmosphere.
What are convection currents
Ocean salinity differences create these two types of currents
surface and deep ocean currents
During the day, warm air rises over land, causing this coastal wind.
What is a sea breeze?
his forms when water vapor rises, cools, and condenses.
What are clouds?
Ocean currents can be classified as surface currents and what other current.
What are deep ocean currents?
Convection in the atmosphere creates these air movements.
What are winds?
Surface ocean currents are warmer and have this characteristic compared to deep currents.
What is less salt?
At night, cooler air over land sinks and creates this coastal wind.
What is a land breeze?
Warm ocean water flowing into an area raises this
what is temperature
This global circulation pattern moves energy from the tropics to the poles.
What is thermohaline circulation?
The Coriolis effect causes wind cells to spin in this specific pattern
warm equator to cold poles and back
Dense, cold water sinks and flows toward this part of the ocean.
What is the equator?
Oceans store this from the Sun, which affects global weather.
What is heat (*100 pt BONUS if THERMAL ENERGY is used)
Cold ocean water absorbs thermal energy from this.
What is the atmosphere
The Gulf Stream transfers energy to the atmosphere in this way as it moves warm water northward.
What is heat transfer through evaporation?
This is the main driving force of ocean currents, convection, and the water cycle
what is the sun
When surface water cools and sinks, it transfers this property to deeper water.
What is energy?
These differences between land and water cause predictable wind patterns.
What are temperature differences?
This is the result of less evaporation when cold water flows into an area.
What is reduced humidity?