Going with the flow
False, currents do move water from place to place.
The layer where Earth's weather occurs?
What is the Troposphere?
What is true?
Air pressure at sea level is BLANK than air pressure at the top of the mountain.
What is greater?
Caused by differences in ocean water density.
What are deep ocean currents?
True or False: A surface current affects the climate of nearby land.
True; surface climates due affect the climate of nearby land.
The layer above the stratosphere
What is the Mesosphere?
The Gulf Stream does this to nearby lands.
What is warms?
Two instruments used to measure air pressure.
What is the mercury and aneroid barometer?
The level of mercury in a barometer falls as the air pressure does this.
What is falls?
This type of current affects water down to a depth of several meters.
What is surface currents?
This layer can reach 1,800 degrees Celsius.
Air pressure is the result of the weight of a column of this pushing on an area.
What is air?
Air pressure does not crush you because molecules do this.
What is push in all directions?
As altitude increases, the density does this.
What is decreases?
This circulation pattern of ocean currents is driven by density differences.
What is thermohaline?
The layer of that has no defined outer limit.
What is the thermosphere/exosphere?
What is curve clockwise?
The higher the altitude, the air pressure is this.
What is lower?
The amount of mass in a given volume of air is this.
What is density?
The gulf stream is one of these.
What is a surface current?
Water forms thin, feathery clouds of ice at the top of?
What is the troposphere?
When a vast sheet of warm water moves east toward the coast of South America, this occurs.
What is an El Nino?
Most weather reports use this to tell the general public about units of air pressure.
What are inches of mercury?
To calculate the density one has to do this.
Divide the mass by its volume.