Surface Currents
Streamlike movements of water that occur near or at the surface of the ocean.
What is Surface currents.
Flows across the East Australian coast
what is the The East Australian Current?
Begins near the equator and carries warm water to other parts of the ocean
What is warm water currents
Deep currents are..
What is streamlike movements of ocean water far below the ocean surface?
waves are made of two components
what is Crests and Troughs?
Transports more water than all of the rivers in the world and flows from Florida to Iceland.
What is Gulf stream
The Australian Current transports
What is 40 million cubic meters of water?
Surface currents greatly affect
what is Climate?
Temperature and salinity affect the..
what is the density of ocean water?
the distance between two adjust crests or troughs.
What is Wavelength?
the amount of depths surface currents can reach.
what is several hundred.
Speeds in the core of the EAC are among the strongest in the pacific.. up to
what is 4.5 mph?
When currents meet landforms
What is They change direction?
Temperature and salinity affect
What is the density of ocean water?
Ocean waves from because of
what is Friction?
Four factors of surface currents.
What is the water temperature, Coriolis effect, Global Winds, and continental patterns.
100 km wide and more than 1.5 km deep
what is the EAC
if earths suface was covered only with water, currents would travel in..
what is a fixed pattern?
when it becomes saltier or gets colder.
what is The ocean gets denser?
waves move in a
what is Circular pattern?
Causes surface currents to move in a curved path and not str8 line
what is the earths rotation
The East Australian Currents flows
what is South?
what is cool water to the other parts of the ocean?
Less-dense water always flows on
what is Top of denser water?
Wave height is the vertical distance between a
what are waves crest and its trough?