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Surface Currents Guided Note Slides

Surface Currents Guided Note Slides

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Science

9th - 12th Grade

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NGSS
MS-LS2-3, MS-ESS2-6, MS-LS2-1

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Standards-aligned

Created by

Chris Thomas

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31 Slides • 20 Questions

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Multiple Select

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Currents transport which of the following throughout the ocean

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Heat

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Nutrients

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Organisms

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Pollutants

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Multiple Choice

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Winds, storms, droughts, and clouds

are by-products of the relationship between the 


Sun, the atmosphere, and the ocean


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True

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False

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Two layers of horizontal winds moving in opposite directions create a '



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Because of the coriolis effect, In the northern hemisphere things are deflected to the right, or move in a
direction. In the southern hemisphere, things are deflected to the left, or move in a
direction

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Fill in the Blank

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Most major surface currents of the open ocean are driven by the

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Coastal currents often flow in the opposite direction to that of the adjacent ocean gyre boundary currents because

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the coastal currents are directed by local wind patterns and interactions with the coastline

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this arrangement helps to conserve total planetary vorticity.

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the coastal currents are not influenced by the Coriolis effect.

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the coastal currents are driven by coastal upwelling.

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Labelling

Label the currents correctly

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

warm current

cold current

Warm current

cold current

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Multiple Choice

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Warm surface current that directs warm air and water to Europe.

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Gulf Stream

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California current

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Gyres

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Global Conveyor Belt

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Reorder

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Reorder the following

Wind moves parallel along the coast

This ‘activates’ the Ekman Spiral

Ekman Transport moves 90 degrees from wind direction moving the water away from shore

This makes room for water below it to move up and take its place

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Multiple Choice

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Upwelling is the process where warm, nutrient rich water from deep in the ocean rises to the surface.
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False
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True

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A result of upwelling is a/an _________ in nutrients in the water.
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Decrease
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Increase
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No Change

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Which of the following is associated with upwelling?

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nutrient-rich water

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oxygen-rich water

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Which will most likely result if there is increased upwelling in a coastal area?

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more aquatic life

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less nutrients in the water

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higher water temperatures

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fewer nitrates

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Upwellings are areas of rich biological diverstiy

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True

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False

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How can upwellings improve fishing for ocean fisherman?

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They cause ocean water to get warmer

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They cause ocean currents to remain calm

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They bring nutrients from cold, deep ocean waters

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They bring ocean currents from the Equator

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Multiple Choice

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Rip currents can occur at any beach with breaking waves, including the Great Lakes

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True

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False

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A longshore current is characterized by ___________.

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water that approaches the shore head on and washes directly back and forth across the beach.

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water that rises vertically at the shore and sinks as it washes further down the beach

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water that moves horizontally across the edge of the beach in a back and forth pattern

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water that approaches the shore at an angle and washes up and down the beach in a zigzag pattern

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This longshore current causes swimmers floating in the water just offshore to drift gradually in a direction ________ to the shoreline

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Perpendicular

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parallel

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materials are worn away and transported by the longshore current(drift)

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weathering

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erosion

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deposition

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sand moves away from the beach from

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longshore drift

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backwash

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gyres

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wind

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