Vertical Currents
What is the one factor that creates vertical currents?
What is the differences in water density.
There are three primary causes of surface currents.
What are wind, Coriolis Effect and ocean basin shape?
These are the two types of ocean currents.
What is surface and deep ocean currents?
The ocean contains these two elements.
What is dissolved gases and salts?
Daily Double: The temperature of the water on the west coast of South America is this temperature because.....
What is cold water coming from the Antarctic Ocean?
What two factors create differences in ocean water density?
What is water temperature and salinity.
These two factors causes surface currents.
What is Wind and the Coriolis effect?
The flow or movement of ocean water.
What is an ocean current?
Does all ocean water have the same amount of salt in it.
No
Western Europe have a warm climate due to warm water coming from ____
What is The Gulf Stream?
Daily Double: Hot and cold water does not mix, but instead form layers when they meet?
What is they have different densities. The denser liquid (cold water) sinks to the bottom.
This rotation motion of the Earth causes wind and ocean water to curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The coldest water is found here on Earth.
What is near the North and South Poles?
This is the amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
Why is the water at Brazilian beaches always so warm?
Water comes from near the equator.
This name refers to the vertical current where cold water rises from the deep ocean to the surface and bring rich nutrients to the surface.
What is Upwelling?
A large circular surface current.
What is an ocean gyre?
The warmest water is found here.
What is near the equator?
During this period warm water is moving towards the east causing tornadoes in Florida. More flooding in the southern U.S. and warmer, drier conditions in the northern U.S. and Canada.
What is El Niño?
If you set sail on a raft off the coast of Mozambique, where would you end up washing ashore?
Probably around Western Australia
The name for the vertical current where ocean water splits into layers and the warmer mass of water is moved beneath the colder water.
What is Downwelling?
Daily Double: The Coriolis effect causes the currents in the Northern and Southern hemispheres to be different.
What is the Northern hemisphere current curves to the right and the southern hemisphere curves to the left?
A global system of ocean currents driven by differences in seawater density, which is controlled by temperature and salinity.
What is thermohaline circulation or global conveyor belt?
This is what happens when two currents of different salinities run into each other?
What is the higher salinity is more dense and will sink?
This is the direction currents in the Northern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis Effect.
What is Clockwise?