General Facts
The water part of the earth
What is the Hydrosphere?
This affects surface currents.
What is Wind?
This ocean is where El Niño occurs.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The longest current in the world
What is the Conveyor Belt?
A large piece of freshwater ice floating in open waters.
What is an iceberg?
97.4% of this kind of water
What is salt water?
This effect causes deflection in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This type of water is pushed to the surface.
What is warm water?
This type of water sinks in the ocean.
What is dense water?
A small channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope
What is a stream?
This percent covers the Earth's ocean.
What is 72%? (accept 70% - 75%)
The opposite of surface current.
What is the Deep Ocean Current?
Warm water expands in both these directions from the equator
What is north and south?
This is where the Gulf Stream begins.
What is the equator?
A body of freshwater of smaller size, vegetation grows on the bottom.
What is a pond?
This percent is the amount of ground water.
What is 0.59%?
Ocean currents flow from east to west in this hemisphere.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Collapse of these are due to a loss of upwelling.
What are fisheries?
The Conveyor Belt is important for our what?
What is climate?
The tidal mouth of a large river. Also known as a Delta
What is an estuary?
These are the 5 oceans.
Another name for a deep ocean current.
Record rainfalls in this country
What is Ecuador or Peru?
This is carried to deep water from air
What is Oxygen?
The term used to describe an area that drains into a smaller river or stream
What is a Watershed?