Honors Oceans

Deep Ocean currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density
• All of the above

The Gulf stream carries _____________ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.

• Cold
• Warm 
• Freezing
• Fresh

Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both A and B

The California Current (west coast) carries _________ water from canada

• Cold 
• Warm
• Freezing
• Fresh

Two types of water currents are

• local and global
• sea and land
• surface and deep
• warm and cold

A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused mainly by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

• Gulf Stream

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Current

• Gyre

Surface currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density
• All of the above

The thermohaline circulation is a pattern of ocean currents driven by _______________ differences.

• density
• temperature
• climate
• wave height

The current that Marlin and Dorry take in "Finding Nemo" is a warm water current known as the ____________________

• East Australian Current (EAC)
• Antaractic Subpolar Current (ASC)
• California Current (CCD)
• Canary Atlantic Middle Current (CAM)