Deep Water Currents
Surface Currents
Go with the flow....
Global Winds
Local Winds
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What does the term thermohaline mean?
What is temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline)?
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What part of the ocean is considered surface currents?
What is the uppermost 400 meters (10%)?
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Why is there wind?
What is uneven heating of the Earth by the sun?
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What are the areas of calm?
What are the doldrums and horse latitudes?
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The wind will always blow from ______ to ______.
What is high to low?
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What two factors create differences in ocean water density?
Water temperature and salinity.
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What is the main cause of surface ocean currents?
What are global winds, Earth's rotation, and ocean floor?
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Describe the temperature and weather conditions in an area with low pressure.
What is warm and cloudy/stormy?
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This causes winds.
What is unequal heating of the atmosphere?
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Identify the type of breeze shown:
What is a sea breeze?
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What two factors influence the salinity of water?
What are precipitation and evaporation?
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This causes the Coriolis effect?
What is the rotation of the Earth?
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What type of weather conditions would you predict with high barometric pressure?
Whats is clear, calm, stable, good weather?
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The global wind pattern of the USA.
What is the prevailing westerlies?
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Identify the breeze shown:
What is a land breeze?
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Mild and more cool weather exists in Northern California as compared to eastern states at the same latitude. What is the reason for the difference?
What is a cold ocean current?
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What are large looped systems of surface currents?
What is a gyre?
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A type of current formed from warm air rising and cool air taking its place.
What is convection current?
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Global wind pattern between the equator an horse latitudes.
What are the trade winds?
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What type of local winds are shown:
What are valley and mountain breezes?
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What type of relationship does salinity and density have?
What is a direct relationship? (As salinity increases, density increases)
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What causes currents to bend right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
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What is the constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity as shown below?
What is the ocean conveyor belt?
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What is the difference in the rate in which land and water heat up?
What is land heats up and cools down faster than water?
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What causes local winds?
Caused by unequal heating of Earth’s surfaces within a small area.