Ocean Surface Currents
Nemo and The Eastern Australian Current
Current Patterns


Deep Currents
Waves
100

Coriolis Effect is

What IsJust as with winds, the rotation of the Earth causes surface currents to move in curved paths rather than straight lines.

100

Does the movie "Nemo" have anything that's realistic in it to do with "Eastern Australian Current"

What Is YES

100

If Earth's surface were covered only with water, currents would travel?

What Is in a fixed pattern across the Earth

100

Deep currents are mainly controlled by ____________

What Is increases in water density

100

A wave is defined as a transfer of ______

What Is energy

200

Why does the Coriolis Effect happen 

Because of the Coriolis Effect, currents in the Northern hemisphere turn clockwise while currents in the Souther hemisphere turn counterclockwise.

200

The East Australian Current transports a               staggering 40 _____ cubic meters of water southward each second.

What Is Million

200

Surface currents greatly affect the climate in many parts of the world. Some surface currents warm and some cool coastal areas year-round. This causes changes in the atmosphere that disrupt the climate in many parts of the world will it be Warmer Or Colder

What Is Both
200

The denser water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the ____ in the form of a deep current.

What Is the equater

200

Wave height is the ____ distance between a wave's crest and its trough.

What Is Vertical

300

Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called

What is Surface Currents?

300

The movie would have you think that the East Australian Current is a narrow jet that you can jump in and out of as your thrill-seeking self desires. Is this true

What Is No

300

When currents meet landforms

What Is they change direction

300

As a result, the volume of the water decreases, and the water becomes denser. Starting at a depth of about?

What Is 200 meters

300

Waves move in a

What Is a circular pattern 

400

The Gulf Stream, which is one of the 

longest surface currents, transport ___

times more water than all of the rivers in 

the world and flows from Florida to Iceland!

What is 25

400

The current is almost 100 km wide and more than ___ km deep

What Is 1.5

400

Earth, but Earth’s surface is not covered only with ____

What Is Water

400

_____________  affect the density of ocean water

What Is Temperature and salinity

400

Waves are made of two main components what are they 

What Is crests and troughs A crest is the highest point and the trough is the lowest point. A wavelength is the distance between two adjust crests or troughs

500

Surface currents flow like _____ in distinct patterns around the Earth?

What is River

500

40 million cubic meters of water southward each second. That is the equivalent of _____ Olympic swimming pools

What Is 16,000

500

Warm water currents begin near the equator and carry warm water to other parts of the ocean

What is Coldwater currents begin closer to the poles and carry cool water to other parts of the ocean?

500

the water temperature becomes ______ as the depth increases.

What Is Colder

500

Ocean waves form because

What Is friction between the wind and the surface of the water