Currents
A large volume of water flowing in a certain direction.
(Plural)
What are Ocean Currents?
When winds push surface water away from the shore and deeper water rises to fill the gap.
What is upwelling?
The movement of wind and water to the right or left that is caused by Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The name for 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?
A narrow, powerful surface current which flows away from the shore.
What is a rip current?
Currents that carries warm or cold water horizontally across the ocean’s surface
What are Surface Currents?
The biomes upwelling typically happens in.
What are coastlines?
Air currents, ocean currents pushed by air, and airplanes.
What are things impacted by the Coriolis Effect?
How long it takes the conveyor belt to complete a cycle.
What is 1000 years?
Swim parallel to the shore until you get out of the narrow current.
What is the correct way to escape a rip current?
A type of vertical current that carries water from the surface to deeper parts of the ocean.(Not Upwelling)
What are Density Currents?
What is attracted to the ocean's surface by the large amount of nutrients from upwelling?
Due to plentiful nutrients in upwelling, it draws large schools of fish to the surface.
Another name the Coriolis Effect is sometimes called that means the same thing.
What is the Coriolis force?
Where high salinity water cools and sinks.
Where is the North Atlantic?
Rip currents take you out around ___ yards
How far is 100-200 yards?
A current in the oceans that is strongest near the shore and in bays and estuaries along the coast.
What are tidal currents?
Tiny organisms in the ocean, minerals and other nutrients.
What materials does upwelling bring to the ocean's surface?
The hemisphere in the Coriolis effect causes ocean currents to curve to the left. (Counter-clockwise)
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Where deep water returns to the surface.
Where are the Indian and Pacific Oceans?
The number of deaths related to rip currents annually.
The unit current speed is measured in.(plural)
What are knots?
The percentage of how much of the ocean is a coastal upwelling region.
What is 1%?
Prevailing winds that blow northeast from 30 degrees North to the equator and that blow southeast 30 degrees South of the equator.
What are Trade Winds?
Another name for the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt.
What is thermohaline circulation?
Channelised rips, Boundary rips, Flash rips.
What are the 3 types of rip currents?