ocean water
What is the science term for 'the amount of salt in the water'?
Salinity
What is the name of the deep ocean current?
Deep ocean conveyor
global ocean conveyor
What causes surface currents in the ocean?
wind and the Coriolis effect
wind and the spinning of the Earth
What is the TOP of a wave called?
crest
How are waves different than currents?
What happens to ocean water at the surface after lots of rain?
What causes the deep ocean current?
DENSITY
What does the Coriolis Effect do to surface currents?
Makes them spin in circles
What is the lowest point of a wave called?
What is it called when a wave 'trips' and the top crashes over?
Breaker
Which is more dense: cold water OR warm water?
Cold water
Where does ocean water become the coldest?
Near the polar regions
North and South poles
near the polar ice caps
What do land masses do to surface currents?
Turns them around
Pushes water back the other direction
What is it called when measuring from a crest to a trough?
wave HEIGHT
It becomes MORE salty.
Where is the most dense water located in the ocean?
At the bottom.
Where does ocean water become the warmest?
Near the equator
in tropical regions
What is the surface current called that Dory and Marlin were in with the turtles?
East Australian current
wave FREQUENCY
How do surfers avoid dangerous waves?
They dive UNDER the wave!
List 3 characteristics of deep ocean water.
very cold
high level of salinity
extreme amounts of pressure
How long can it take for water to travel through the deep ocean current?
1,000 years!
What object helped scientists learn more about surface currents?
Rubber duckies!
WHERE are ocean waves happening?
Only at the very top surface of the ocean
When water gathers together in the ocean during the water cycle, it is called.....?
Collection