Solar Heating
The area on the Earth that receives the greatest amount of solar radiation
What is the equator?
The bottom most layer of the ocean that has the coldest water, highest salinity, and is nutrient-rich.
What is the Antarctic Bottom Water? (AABW)
An area of low wind that is found along the equator
What are the Doldrums?
Ocean currents moving away from the equator
What is a warm water current?
What is to the right?
What warm air does because it is less dense
What is rise?
The second layer of the ocean that is slightly cooler and denser than the top layer.
What is the Intermediate Layer?
What are the Westerlies?
Ocean currents moving toward the equator
What are cold water currents?
Global winds in the Southern Hemisphere curve in this direction
What is to the left?
The time of day in which sea breezes occur
What is during the day?
The top layer of the ocean with the warmest temperatures and lowest salinity and density
What is the Mixed/Surface Layer?
An area of low wind found along the 30 degrees latitude lines.
What are the Horse Latitudes?
A warm water current along the east coast of the United States
What is the gulf stream?
The way that winds are named
What is where they come from?
The area of the Earth that receives the less amount of radiation from the Sun.
The third layer of the ocean that is very cold and dense with high salinity, but doesn't quite reach the ocean floor.
What is the North Atlantic Deep Water?
What are the Polar Easterlies?
A cold-water current that is found on the west coast of the United States.
What is the California Current?
The way wind moves in terms of pressure
What is High to Low Pressure?
The way that Earth is heated. It is also the main cause of winds.
What is unequally?
The two characteristics are used to create the ocean layers
What are temperature and density?
Global winds work their way toward the equator and are the cause of equatorial upwelling
What are the Trade Winds?
The largest ocean current. Mostly because it isn't blocked by any land.
What is the West Wind Drift? (Antarctic Circumpolar)
The main cause of global winds
What is the Coriolis Effect? (Earth's Rotation)