Vocabulary
The ability to make things move or change
What is energy?
Energy from the ______ is transferred to ______. Some of that energy is then transferred to the ______ above.
What is the Sun, Earth's surface, and the air?
A measure of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
How does energy transfer?
What is from the sun to the surface, then from the surface to the air?
If ocean temperature is warm, air temperature will be ______.
What is cool/cold?
The distance of a place north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
Ocean currents coming from a pole will have a ______ temperature.
What is lower/cooler/colder?
To move from one object or place to another
What is transfer?
What do ocean currents carry?
What is energy and organisms?
What is warm?
An event or process that leads to a result or change
What is a cause?
Energy is always transferred from ______ to ______.
What is warm/hot to cold?
Ocean water flowing in a continuous path
What is an ocean current?
Higher temperature means more ______. Lower temperature means less ______.
What is energy?
This powerful current starts near the equator and runs up the East Coast of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
General weather patterns over a long period of time
What is climate?
Ocean currents from the equator will have a ______ temperature.
What is higher/warmer/hotter?
A result or change that happens because
of an event or process
What is an effect?
______ and ______ determine the direction of ocean currrents.
What are prevailing winds and the position of continents?
This is another name for a climate scientist.
What is a climatologist?
Winds that move in one direction and are strong
enough to push ocean currents
Changes to ____________ affect ocean currents.
What are prevailing winds?
The Global Conveyor Belt is a large and powerful ___________.
What is an ocean current?
An effect may have more than one ______; these may be linked into a chain of ______ and effects.
What is a cause?
These two things can affect a location's air temperature.
What are latitude and ocean currents?