ocean current
Stream like movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean.
what are Surface Currents
Deep currents are mainly controlled by increases in
What is water density
When currents meet land forms, they do what?
What is change direction
Waves are made of what two main components?
What are the crest and trough
The East Australian Current transports a staggering ____ ____ cubic meters of water southward each second
What is 40 million
Surface currents are controlled by four
factors
what are global winds, the Coriolis effect, continental deflections, and the water temperature.
Ocean water gets denser when it becomes or gets colder.
What is saltier.
Warm water currents begin where?
What is the equator
The crest is a point of a wave
What is highest
The current is almost ___ km wide
What is 100
flows from Florida to Iceland
what is the gulf stream
Starting at a depth of about the water temperature becomes colder as the depth increases.
What is 200 meters.
Cold water currents begin where?
What are the poles
The trough is point of a wave.
What is lowest
The current is more than ____ km deep.
What is 1.5
Because of the Coriolis Effect, currents in the Northern Hemisphere turn
What is clockwise!
The denser water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the equator in the form of a
What is a deep current.
Currents from the equator carry water.
what is warm
A wavelength is a distance between two
What are trough or crest
The EAC is more of a ___ rather than a tube as it is depicted in the movie, Nemo
What is a ribbon
Currents in the Southern Hemisphere turn
What is counterclockwise
are stream-like movements of ocean water far below the ocean surface
What are deep currants
Currents from the poles carry water.
what is cold
Wave height is the ____ distance between a wave's crest and its trough.
What is vertical
The EAC is depicted as ___.
What is tube