Heat in Action
Warm air rises and moves towards the poles due to this.
What is the equator?
This causes surface currents.
What is wind?
This is how long the circulation of deep water masses take to complete a full ocean circulation.
What is 1000 years?
The Sun’s energy warms ocean water, causing this to decrease and water to rise.
What is density.
This type of heat transfer occurs when fluids move due to temperature differences.
What is convection?
Factor that causes a surface current to become stronger.
What is an increase in temperature?
Surface water that sinks into deeper parts of the ocean, caused by winds pushing surface water toward the coast, carrying oxygen-rich water.
What is downwelling?
These towering landforms block moist air, creating rain shadows.
What are mountains?
Saltier water is heavier and sinks, creating this type of circulation.
What is thermohaline circulation?
Earth's rotation, the deflection of moving air, clockwise rotation in the Northern hemisphere and counterclockwise rotation in the Southern hemisphere causing winds to curve is this.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Wind that blows from the sea toward the land during the daytime due to land heating up faster than water creating lower pressure over the land.
What is sea breeze?
Cold, deep, nutrient-rich waters that rise to the ocean surface, caused by winds pushing surface water away from the coast.
What is upwelling?
Warm ocean currents near coasts often make climates this way.
What is warmer and wetter?
The Gulf Stream is an example of this type of current that moves warm water north.
What is surface current?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking creates these currents that influence weather patterns.
What are convection currents?
Wind that blows from the land toward the sea during the nighttime, because land cools faster than water, creating higher pressure over the warmer sea.
What is land breeze?
The side of the mountain that is dry due to the rain shadow effect?
What is the Leeward?
Cold currents near coasts often make climates this way.
What is cooler and drier?
The combination of temperature and this factor drives deep ocean currents.
What is salinity?
When a current changes course because a landmass gets in the way.
What is continental deflection?
The sun heats the equator more than the poles, creating this.
What are pressure differences?
The loops or circulation of major currents.
What is a Gyre?
Cold, salty water being forced downward.
What is downwelling?
This process moves heat from the equator toward the poles through ocean currents.
What is global conveyor belt?
Oceanic convection contributes to this global system that moves heat and nutrients around the planet.
What is thermohaline circulation?