Oceans part 2

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• Stop moving
• Are deflected (change paths)
• Continue in the direction they were going

Wha type of tide would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• full moon tide
• new moon tide
• neap tide
• spring tide

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What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

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How do warm-water currents affect the coastal areas along which they flow?

• Cool the coast
• Warm the coast
• Cause snow to fall
• Cause higher tides

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What name is given to large, destructive waves caused by underwater earthquakes and volcanoes?

• Spring tide
• Longshore current
• Tsunami
• Swell

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Why do waves increase in height as they approach the shore?

• waves are forced into inlets
• water particles speed up
• water density increases
• they interact with the continental shelf

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Upwelling is associated with

• a decrease in access to nutrients for phytoplankton
• cooler, nutrient-rich waters being pushed up from deeper ocean waters
• temperature gradients moving water from the equator to the poles
• an increase in human fatalities

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________ and _______ affect the ocean's density and cause the Global Conveyor Belt (GYRES) to travel

• gravity and the Coriolis Effect

• temperature and salinity

• wind and climate

• temperature and the Coriolis Effect

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Ocean currents have an affect on which two things

• climate and weather
• temperature and density
• land and sea
• equator and poles

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The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean.

• California Current
• Surface Current
• Gyre
• Global Wind Belt

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