Currents
The two types of ocean currents are known as these.
What are surface and deep currents?
This is a major warm-water current.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The upper portion of the continental margin where you stand as you enter ocean water..
What is the continental shelf?
These are daily changes in the level of ocean waters.
What are tides?
The main cause of surface waves on the ocean.
What is wind?
The three factors that affect surface currents.
What are the Coriolis Effect, Global Winds, and Continental deflection?
A cold-water current, which brings cool weather to the coast.
What is the California Current?
The deepest part of the ocean, much like cliffs on land.
What are ocean trenches?
The difference in water level between high tide and low tide.
What is the tidal range?
What are the 3 main zones in the ocean, in order from the top to bottom?
What are surface zone, thermocline, and deep zone.
The curving of the path of a moving objects due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Causes ocean tides.
What is gravitational pull of the moon on Earth's surface water?
Submerged underwater mountains on the ocean floor.
What are seamounts?
The tide with increased tidal range that occurs two times a month, at a new moon and at a full moon.
What is a spring tide?
Two things that change the density of ocean water.
What is temperature and salinity?
These are currents that are NOT directly affected by the wind.
What are deep currents?
These are horizontal movements of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's exterior.
What are surface currents.
New seafloor is created at this very long underwater mountain chain.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
The tide with minimum tidal range that occurs during the first and third quarter of the moons.
What is a neap tide?
A disturbance that transfers ENERGY through ocean water.
What is an ocean wave?
Deep currents are formed by this.
What is the change in density of water?
This is what NOAA stand for.
What is the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration?
The part of the ocean floor that resembles large areas of flat land on the surface of the earth.
What is the abyssal plain.
If HIGH tide occurs at 6am one morning, then the following LOW tide will occur this many hours later.
What is 6 hours?
The ocean zone that gets colder with depth faster than any other ocean zone.
What is the thermocline?