Great Ocean conveyor belt
Density and surface currents
Ocean and rip currents
Coriolis effect
Upwelling
100
What is it
The circuit of Ocean Currents
100
What are surface currents
Wind-driven currents
100
What is an Ocean Current
Large body of water flowing in a direction
100
What is it
The affect of the rotaion and movement of the earth on the bodies of water's movement
100
What is upwelling
Vertical water movement towards the earth's surface
200
Where is it
The entire globe - all oceans
200
What are density currents
Vertical water currents
200
Where are rip currents
The coast
200
In the southern hemisphere, which way does it go
Counter clockwise
200
Temperature of upwelling water
Cold
300
Conveyor belt function
TRansports water throughout the globe
300
The direction surface currents flow
Left & Right
300
What are rip currents
A powerful force of surface currents
300
In what direction does the wind or water flow in
Left or right - depending on the hemisphere
300
What direction is upwelling
Up/Vertical/North
400
Why do we depend on it
It helps the ocean's global nutrient cycle and carbon dioxide cycle
400
The direction density currents flow
Down/South
400
How do you excape a rip current
You swim horizontally to the shore
400
What affects the flow and speed of the currents
The size and shape of the land masses
400
Where does this happen
The West Coast of each continent
500
An alternate name for it
The Thermohaline Circulation
500
Desnsity current formula
j=pv
500
What percentage of ocean recuses are rip current disasters
80%
500
Formula
500
Which season does upwelling occur in
Summer