Ocean Currents
This is also known as thermohaline circulation.
What is deep ocean currents?
Force caused by earth's rotation is known as:
What is Coriolis effect?
Amount of space between rock particles is known as:
What is porosity?
What are the two main types of ocean currents?
What are surface currents and deep currents?
What are the three main factors that influence surface currents?
what are global winds, the Coriolis effect, and land masses/ continental boundaries?
What are the three things that drive deep ocean currents?
What is water density, temperature, and salinity?
Which direction does currents move in the southern hemisphere?
What is left?
An area of land draining into a specific body of water is known as:
What is watershed?
What four things are transported through ocean circulation?
What is heat from equator to poles, nutrients across oceans, marine life/ organisms, dissolved gases like oxygen?
Circular patterns that move in surface current is known as:
What is gyres?
If water density increases, what happens to temperature and salinity?
What is An decrease in temperature and an increase in salinity (saltiness).
The breaking down of rock and soil is known as:
What is erosion?
What factor affects both deep and surface currents?
What is Temperature?
True or false: water can only be cold during surface current movement.
What is false?
How long does it take for deep ocean currents to cycle?
What is hundreds of years?
True or false: the Coriolis effect moves warm water up and cool water down.
What is false. This does not move water up or down.
Materials carried by rivers is known as:
What is stream load?
Continuous, directed movements of ocean water is known as:
What is ocean currents?
True or false: deep ocean currents move slower than surface currents.
What is true?
Which direction does water move in the northern hemisphere?
What is right?
Smaller streams that flow into larger rivers is known as:
What is rivers?