Vocabulary
The distance of a location north or south of the Earth's Equator?
What is Latitude
Thermal energy transfers in what direction?
Hot to cold
What happens to the ocean current when it encounters land?
What is changes direction
When warm air rises and cooler air rushes in to replace the warm air it produces _______?
What is wind.
The imaginary Line that divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator.
The sun's energy warms a surface (land or water) then the surface will warm the?
What is air.
What force on Earth move the ocean currents?
What are the Prevailing Winds?
What happens to the ocean current if you do not have prevailing winds?
The ocean currents will stop moving
Ocean water flowing in a continuous path.
What are Ocean Currents
The sun's energy is at its strongest where on the planet?
What is the equator
A major factor for Coastal Cities to have different climates even though they are the same distance from the equator would be?
What are Ocean Currents.
What will happen if Prevailing winds change direction?
The ocean current will change direction.
Winds that move in one direction and are strong enough to push Ocean Currents?
What are Prevailing Winds.
Where is the current coming from when energy is transferred from the water to the air?
Where is the equator
Where is the current coming from when energy is transferred from the air to the water?
Where is the poles
Do Prevailing winds at the equator and the poles move in the same direction?
No
A giant pattern of moving water that spans the oceans and moves water from place to place in a circular pattern.
What is a Gyre.
Ocean currents move energy in the form of
What is heat
What direction on Earth does warmer ocean currents move towards? What direction does cooler ocean currents move towards?
The equator. The Poles.
What "holiday" is on Monday?
St. Patrick's Day