Surface Currents
Deep Currents
Terms
Go with the flow...
Rubber Ducks
100
Definition for surface currents
What is a stream like movement of water that occurs at or near the surface of the ocean
100
Definition for deep currents
What is a stream like movement of ocean water far below the surface?
100
Density-driven currents
What is a deep current?
100
The location of where cold currents form.
What are the polar regions?
100
The ocean current that the rubber ducks started on
What is the Kuroshio current
200
Surface current that moves 25 times more water than all the rivers in the world
What is the Gulf Stream
200
The factors that cause the movement of deep currents.
What is temperature and salinity
200
The curving movements of currents due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
200
What happens to warm water when it loses heat?
It becomes colder water.
200
The number of rubber ducks that fell into the ocean in 1992
What is 28,000
300
The location where water currents form.
What is the equator?
300
The amount of dissolved solids in a liquid.
What is salinity?
300
The periodic change in the location of warm and cold surface water in the pacific ocean.
What is El Nino?
300
How do warm and cold surface currents affect climate?
The currents either heat or cool that air above them and push the air across the country or state.
300
The name of the ocean that rubber ducks fell into.
What is the Pacific Ocean
400
The three factors of surface currents
What is the Coriolis effect, global winds, continental deflection
400
The explanation of how decreasing temperature causes deep currents
What is cool air chills the surface water, causing the now more dense cold water to sink to the ocean floor and move towards the equator?
400
A stream of warm water/air that flows from the tropics to the North Atlantic.
What is the Gulf Stream?
400
You have a sample of fresh water and a sample of salty ocean water. Without tasting them, how could you figure out which was the salty ocean water?
Set up an experiment to test which water is denser.
400
The person who was looking for the duckies and created a website about the ducks all around the world.
Who is Curtis Ebbesmeyer?
500
The direction surface currents move near the equator.
What is east to west?
500
The explanation of how evaporation causes deep ocean currents
What is water being warmed, evaporating, and leaving behind the salt causing the water that is left to become denser and sink?
500
the vertical current where cold water rises from the deep ocean to the surface
What is upwelling?
500
Why does Western Europe have a warm climate?
The Gulf Stream brings up warm water from the East Coast of the United States.
500
The name of the trash island in the middle of the ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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