Great Ocean Conveyor Belt
What does the great ocean conveyor belt circulate?
Water, heat, and nutrients
What direction do surface currents flow?
Horizontally
What is an ocean current?
A large body of water flowing a certain direction
What is the Coriolis effect?
the movement of wind and water
What is upwelling?
Vertical water movement (bottom to top)
What causes the great ocean conveyor belt?
Temperature, wind, and salinity differences
What causes rip currents?
Pressure building up from uneven wave water
What influences the formation of these currents?
Major wind belts
What causes the Coriolis effect?
Earth's rotation
True or False: Water that comes from upwelling is warm and is poor in nutrients
False
What is another name for the major wind belts?
Prevailing winds
What causes a density current?
Changes in density, not heat or wind
What causes ocean currents to move?
wind, temperature, and salinity variations
In what way do fluids move in each hemisphere?
Right/clockwise = Northern hemisphere
Left/counterclockwise = Southern hemisphere
How does upwelling affect weather?
Lowers sea surface temperature and may be responsible for changing meteorological conditions in those areas