Vocabulary
Described as the amount of salt or saltiness of water.
What is salinity.
These are the two types of ocean currents.
What is surface and deep ocean currents.
This is what climate is defined as.
The long-term weather pattern of a specific area normally tracked for 20 years.
This is known as a fast moving air current located in the troposphere.
What is a "Jet Stream".
This is what the oceans global conveyer belt is also known as.
What is thermohaline circulation.
Defined as the movement of water from one location to another.
What is "Currents".
This type of ocean currents normally takes place near the shorelines or the equator is known as what.
What is "Upwelling".
This oceanic current is responsible for the distribution of heat throughout the planet.
What is "Surface Currents".
This global wind flows from the east to west between 50° and 60° north or south of the equator.
What is the "Polar Easterlies".
This process is known as the reason that ocean & wind currents bend to the left or right depending on its location.
What is the Coriolis Effect.
The process known as the downward movement of a fluid due to its high density is called what?
What is "Downwelling".
This large circular ocean surface current is formed by Earth's wind patterns and rotation.
What is a "Gyre".
According to German botanist Wladimir Koppen, the climate is classified into these 5 climate zones.
What is tropical (A), dry (B), temperate (C), continental (D), and polar zones (E).
*Daily Double* Known as one of the three global atmospheric circulations, this cell is found 30° to 60° from the equator.
What is the "Ferrell Cell".
The British geographer Andrew Herbertson said this regarding the difference between climate and weather.
What is "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
Known as an imaginary force resulting from the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect.
This process is the main factor behind deep-ocean currents which are driven by differences in the water’s density.
What is "Thermohaline Circulation".
With regards to Earth's uneven heating which area is found to be more hotter than the rest.
What is the areas closest to the equator.
Global wind patterns and its currents are known to flow from what type of areas/zones.
What is high pressure zones to low pressure zones.
Defined as the local ocean currents these are the main two currents not related to the global wind belts.
What is "Longshore & Rip Currents".
This oceanographic phenomenon involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.
What is "Upwelling".
*Daily Double* This ocean current is the only current known to flow nonstop around the globe.
What is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
*Daily Double* Resulting from the Earth's rotation, the Coriolis effect causes the circular motion of ocean and wind currents to flow in which direction in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is towards the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
These are known as the 3 global wind cells of the atmosphere.
What is the Hadley, Ferrell, & Polar Cells.
Defined as the imaginary line around the middle of Earth. It is halfway between the North and South Poles, and divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the "Equator".