Ocean Surface currents
Surface currents flow like rivers in distinct patterns around the ____
Earth
Finding Nemo added a little poetic license to the ____ ____.
real ways
If Earth's surface were covered only with water, currents would travel in a ____ pattern across the Earth
fixed
Deep currents are streamlike ____ in the ocean
movements
Waves are made of ____ main components
two
The surface current of the gulf stream flow from Florida to ____
Iceland
The real australien surface current is way wider and ____
bigger
When currents meet landforms they change ____
direction
Deep currents are mainly controlled by ____ in water density
increases
A ____ is the distance between two adjust crests or troughs.
wavelength
The gulf stream which is one of the longest surface currents transports ____ times more water than in all the rivers in the world
25
The East Australian Current transports a staggering ____ million cubic meters of water southward each second.
40
warm water currents form near the ____
equator
Ocean water gets denser when it becomes ____ or gets colder.
Saltier
Wave ____ is the vertical distance between a waves crest and its trough.
height
____ winds blowing across Earth creates surface currents
Global
The current is almost ____ kilometers wide
100
Cold water currents carry ____ water to other parts of the world
cold
Starting at a depth of about ___ meters, the water temperature becomes colder as the depth increases.
200
____ waves are waves that require a medium.
mechanical
Surface currents can reach a depth of up to ____ meters in length
several hundred
More than ____ kilometers deep
1.5
Surface currents affect the ____ in many parts of the world
climate
The denser water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the ____ in the form of a deep current.
A wave is defined as a transfer of ____
energy