Ocean Currents
Mass per volume OR the amount of stuff in a space
What is Density?
A stream-like movement of water?
What is a Ocean Current?
Two ways that ocean water can increase salinity.
What is freezing and evaporation?
What is the Deep Ocean Current.
The name of the ocean surface current near California.
What is The California current?
The cause of surface currents.
What is wind, continental deflection, and the Coriolis effect.
The apparent curving of moving objects due to Earth's rotation.
What is Coriolis Effect
When a current changes course because a landmass gets in the way.
What is continental deflection?
This is exchanged between ocean water and the air above it.
What is heat/temperatures.
The name of the ocean surface current by Peru.
What is the Peru current.
How many surface currents are in the ocean?
There are MANY!!!
The loops or circulation of major currents.
What is a Gyre?
The place on Earth where ocean water gets warmed up.
What is near the equator?
This is how long the circulation of deep water masses take to complete a full ocean circulation.
What is 1000 years?
How early explorers travelled around the world.
What is by following the surface currents?
How many deep ocean currents are in the ocean?
These objects are stuck in the surface current gyres.
What are garbage and the rubber duckies?
The cause of deep oceanic convection currents. (2)
What are differences in salt concentrations and Temp?
Two ways that Ocean water can become LESS salty.
What are precipitation (rain/snow) and collection (rivers flowing into the ocean).
The current that was Marlin using to find Nemo.
What is The East Australian current?
Salinity is
What is Saltiness or the amount of salt in an area?
The name of the DEEP ocean current.
What is the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt?
The place on the Earth where ocean water gets cooled down/becomes cold.
What is near the North and South Poles.
If a warm water current flows by an area of land, how will that change the temperature of that area?
What is make it warmer?
The two thing that affect the desity of water.
What is temp and salinity.