Ocean Surface Currents
Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the Earth.
What are Surface Currents?
This current that Dory and Marlin ride is among the strongest in the South Pacific, up to 4.5 mph an hour.
What is the East Australian Current?
When currents meet landforms, they change direction. This is known as blank.
What is Continental Deflection?
These are stream-like movements of ocean water far below the ocean surface
What are Deep Currents
Waves are made of two main components, called this.
What are crests and troughs?
Surface currents flow like this distinct pattern around the Earth.
What are rivers?
The real East Australian Current is much bigger and much blank than in the movie
What is much more wild?
Warm-water currents create warmer climates in coastal areas that would otherwise be much cooler, like in this country.
What is Iceland?
Ocean water gets blank when it becomes saltier or gets colder
What is denser?
This is the highest point of the wave.
What is the Crest?
Surface currents are controlled by four factors known as these.
What are global winds, the Coriolis effect, continental deflections, and the water temperature?
The East Australian Current transports a staggering blank of water southward each second.
What is 40 million cubic meters?
Cold-water currents create cooler climates in coastal areas that would be much warmer, like in this city.
What is San Francisco?
Starting at a depth of about this many meters, the water temperature becomes colder as the depth increases.
What is 200 meters?
This is the lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
This stream is one of the longest surface currents transporting 25 times more water than all of the rivers in the world and flows from Florida to Iceland.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The current is almost 100 km wide, and more than this amount deep
What is 1.5 km deep?
This causes changes in the atmosphere that disrupt the climate in many parts of the world.
What are warm and cool surface currents?
The blank water moves along the ocean floor and eventually travels toward the equator in the form of a deep current.
What is denser?
Ocean waves form because of this between the wind and the surface of the water.
What is friction?
The blank of the Earth causes surface currents to move in curved paths rather than straight lines.
What is the Rotation of Earth?
The East Australian Current flows southward from this Reef.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
If Earth's surface were covered only with water, currents would travel in this kind of pattern across the Earth.
What is a fixed pattern?
Deep currents are mainly controlled by increases in this.
What is water density?
There are lots of waves all around us in everyday life like this that help cook food.
What is a microwave?