Vocabulary
The imaginary line dividing the northern and southern hemispheres.
The equator
What is cause and effect? Give an example based on your learning.
Effects happen after the cause. For example, prevailing winds move the ocean currents.
Energy transfer is the process of moving a substance with a lot of energy to a substance with not a lot of energy.
A current from the equator is passing Florida. What is the temp of Florida?
hot
What is a two-letter word, starts with P and ends with g for the first word, starts with w and ends with ds for the second word, and directs ocean currents?
Prevailing Winds.
General weather patterns for a period.
climate
The closer the location is to the equator...
the more warmer that location is
How does the sun transfer its energy?
Sun transfers energy to the ground/water, then to the air.
A current from the South Pole is passing Australia. What is the temp of this location?
cold
Which word starts with s and ends with n, and is a major heat/energy source.
sun
latitude and longitude
imaginary horizontal lines,imaginary vertical lines
Energy is transferred from warm substances to
cold substances
True or False: If the ocean current is hotter than the air, the air transfers energy to the current.
false
Antarctica got a passing current from the South Pole. What is the temp for this location?
cold, like, SUPER COLD
If a passing current from the equator bumped into a continent which redirected it to another continent and came back to the equator, what is this called? hint hint, the shape it follows is like the shape of an emoji
gyre
gyre
moving water spinning in circles
True or false: Currents from the equator bring cool water.
true! jk jk jk it is false
True or False: The Sun transfers the most energy to the equator.
true
hot
Pick 500 for this section if you dare. Okay back to the question. What word starts with C and ends with h, and is a location we talked about at the start of OAC?
Christchurch
El Nino
climate pattern that heats the water near the equator more than usual
Two causes that determine the direction of the ocean currents.
Prevailing winds and continents.
An ocean current came from the South Pole. After getting redirected from a continent, the ocean current is hot now. How is this possible?
The current from the equator(or air temp) transferred energy to the current from the south pole.
A location is near the equator. But a current from the North Pole is passing the location too. What is the best temp for this case? Very hot, hot, medium hot, or not hot.
medium hot
Kenya is near the equator. After a current that came from the North Pole then got heated up but then became cool from a passing cold current and then got heated up but then became cool from a passing cold current and then got heated up but then became cool from a passing cold current and then got heated up but then became cool from a passing cold current, what is the temperature of Kenya.
Cool(just a imagination)