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surface currents
deep ocean currents
climate
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100
amount of salt in something
What is salinity?
100
warms the air above an area
What is surface current?
100
The mixing of ocean water throughout the entire ocean?
What is the global conveyor belt?
100

Air moves from areas of _____ pressure to ______ pressure.

High to low

100

What is what all currents carry?

Thermal Energy

200
large mass of moving water
What is current?
200

What is the cause of surface currents?

wind

200
Density of the water because of salinity and temperature
What is the cause of deep ocean currents?
200

What causes air circulation?

The uneven heating of the earth

200

What causes the density of water to change?

Temperature and salinity

300
The amount of mass in a given volume
What is density?
300
There are 5 of these in the ocean: 2 in the Atlantic, 2 in the Pacific, 1 in the Indian
What is gyre?
300
Below 400 meters
What is deep ocean current?
300

The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure

What is wind?

300
Cannot evaporate or freeze
What is salt?
400
Total amount of energy in something (heat)
What is Thermal Energy?
400
In the direction the gyres move in the northern hemisphere
What is clockwise
400
The global conveyor belt begins
What is the the Northern Atlantic?
400

Cold, dense air sinks ; Warm, less dense air rises; This happen in a cycle 

What is convection?

400
When the surface currents move opposite of the deep ocean currents
What is the global conveyor belt?
500
The fastest moving warm current in the Northern Atlantic
What is the gulf stream.
500
The phenomenon caused by the rotation of the Earth
What is Coriolis Effect
500
Pattern of ocean currents driven by density
What is Thermohaline Circulation
500

On the Earth, where is sunlight the most concentrated? Where is it the sunlight the least concentrated (more spread out)?

At the equator and at the North and South Poles

500

Name the three global wind belts.

What is the trade winds, the westerlies, and the easterlies