Ocean Surface Currents
What is surface currents
what is Stream like movement of water that occurs at or near the surface of the ocean
The direction of the East Australian Current does flows
what is Southward from the Great Barrier Reef.
Finish the following statement: The pattern currents flow________
what is a fixed pattern across the Earth
Stream like movements of ocean water below the ocean surface?
what is Deep Currents
Required for mechanical waves to travel
What is a medium
The four ways that surface currents are being controlled?
what are global winds, the Coriolis effect, continental deflections, and the water temperature.
The speed of the east Australian Current
what is 4.5 mp/h
what happens when land forms meets with each other
what is a change direction
The way deep currents are mainly controlled
What is water density
Finish the following statement: Sound's forms in _____
What is a wave
What is the longest surface currents
what is the gulf stream
How far and fast the East Australian Current transports water
what is 40 million cubic metres of water southward each second
what warm currents do
what is create warmer climates in coastal areas that would otherwise be much cooler
What affects density of ocean water
what is Temperature and salinity
A way a wave is defined as?
What is a transfer of energy
what is the northern hemisphere current direction
what is Clockwise
The width and depth of the East Australian Current
what is 100 km wide and and more than 1.5 km deep
What cold currents do
what is cold water currents create cooler climates in coastal areas that would be much warmer
The depth when water starts to become dense
What is 200 meters
Waves are made of what 2 components?
What is crest and troughs
what is southern hemisphere current direction
what is counter clockwise
The shape of the East Australian Current
what is a Ribbon shape
The effect that the surface currents and some warm and cold currents have on coastal areas and other parts of the world?
what is changes in the atmosphere that disrupt the climate in many parts of the world.
Finish the following statement: the temperature when water becomes dense it becomes _____
What is colder
The distance in a wave length
What is two adjust crest or trough