Currents, tides, and waves... Oh my!

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun
• Earth rotating on its axis
• The tides
• Gravity

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

• Cold
• Warm 
• Freezing
• Fresh

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What happens to a current when it comes in contact with a continent or landmass?

• It continues over the continent
• It stops
• It changes direction
• It is absorbed by the land

As you go deeper in the ocean, the water is colder and less salty.

• True
• False

Due to the Coriolis Effect, currents in the northern hemisphere move

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• both

• neither

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Due to the Coriolis Effect, currents in the southern hemisphere move

• clockwise

• counter-clockwise

• both

• neither

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Warm ocean currents generally form at the...

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

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Cold ocean currents generally form at the...

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

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Two types of water currents are

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

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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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