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Currents
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Earth's Ocean Grab Bag
Water Cycle Grab Bag
100
Surface and Deep
What are the two types of currents?
100

As _____________________ passes through the water in a wave, small vertical circles are created.

What are small, vertical circles?

100
The repeated rise and fall of the ocean level.
What is definition of tide?
100
The percent of Earth that is covered by water.
What is 71 - 75%
100
The water cycle is powered by __________.
What is heat energy from the sun?
200
The current that is affected by wind.
What is surface current?
200

The distance from the top of the wave to the bottom of the wave.

What waveheight?

200
High and low tides occur daily due to _______________ pull of the sun and the moon.
What is the gravitational pull?
200
The percent of Earth's water that is fresh.
What is 3%?
200
Precipitation, like snow, rain, sleet, and hail, occurs when _____________.
What is the clouds are too heavy to hold the moisture aloft?
300
The Ocean Conveyor Belt is affected by density - saltiness and temperature.
What is deep current?
300

The distance from one crest to the next is called _______.

What is wave length?

300

The number of high tides and low tides that occur each day.

What are 2 high tides and 2 low tides?

300
The deep valley at the bottom of the ocean floor formed as 2 plates subduct.
What is an ocean trench?
300
Water vapor (gas) changes to a liquid and clouds form.
What is condensation?
400
Surface currents are controlled by 3 things.
What are Global Winds, Coriolis Effect, and Continental Deflections?
400

The top of a wave is called ___________ and the bottom is called _________________.

What is crest and trough?

400

The tide occurs twice a month and creates the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.

What is Spring Tide?

400
The order of ocean topography from the coast can be described by this statement: She slowly rises.
What is Shelf, Slope, and Rise?
400
Throughout time, the amount of water on Earth (increases, remains constant, or decreases).
What is remains constant?
500
Deep ocean currents move due to density changes cause by 2 things.
What are temperature and salinity (amount of saltiness)?
500

A series of very large waves that are caused by underwater earthquakes, landslides or volcanoes.

What is a tsunami?

500
The Neap tide occur twice a month at the first and third quarter moons. It creates the lowest high tide and the highest low tide. The reason for this is ___________
What is the Sun and the moon are pulling against each other at a ninety degree angle?
500
A mountain chain on the land can be compared to this on the ocean floor.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
500
Perspiration is to animals as ______________ is to plants.
What is transpiration?