Ocean Currents
A current created by the wind
What is a Surface Current?
The movement of wind and water to the right or left that is caused by Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt is made up of.
What are Ocean Currents?
It causes Upwelling.
What is Wind?
Something that causes regions near it to be colder and drier.
What is a Cold-Water Current?
When the water gets saltier and colder
When does water sink in a Density Current?
In a way that has nothing to do with the Coriolis Effect, despite common misbeliefs.
What way does a Toilet flush?
A model of the large system of ocean currents that affects weather and climate by circulating thermal energy around Earth.
What is the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt?
When wind blows across the ocean’s surface, pushing water away from an area. Deeper, colder water then rises to replace it
What is Upwelling?
Something that causes regions near it to be warmer and wetter.
What is a Warm-Water Current?
A narrow, powerful surface current which flows away from the shore
What is a Rip Current?
A hurricane that is in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is a Typhoon?
Where the high salinity water cools and sinks.
What is the North Atlantic?
The vertical movement of water toward the ocean’s surface.
What is Upwelling?
A loop of rotating ocean currents driven by temperature and salinity differences.
What is a Gyre?
A large volume of water flowing in a certain direction.
What is an Ocean Current?
The direction that the Coriolis Effect curves water in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Right?
The amount of time the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt model takes to complete a cycle.
What is 1,000 years?
Where Upwelling often occurs.
What are Coastlines?
A warm-water current that affects coastal areas of the southeastern United States by transferring lots of thermal energy and moisture to the surrounding air.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The max depth of a surface current
What is 400m?
The direction that the Coriolis Effect curves water in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Left?
Where deep water returns to the surface through upwelling.
What is the Indian and Pacific Oceans?
It is brought by Upwelling from deep in the ocean to the ocean's surface.
What is Cold, Nutrient-Rich Water?
A cold-water current that affects coastal areas of the southwestern United States by taking lots of thermal energy and moisture to the surrounding air.
What is the California Current?