Ocean Mid-term Review

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

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

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

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

This is a picture of?

• Gulf Stream

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Current

• Gyre

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

Where is ocean water the densest.

• The surface
• The middle
• The bottom
• Lake Michigan

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• Stop moving

• Are refracted (change paths)

• Continue in the direction they were going

A Longshore current runs...to the beach.

• Parallel

• Perpendicular

• North-south

• East-west

What causes tides?

• The Moon & Sun

• Wind and Sun

• Earthquakes and volcanoes

• People and animals

Circular surface currents are called.

• Deep ocean currents

• Longshore currents

• Rip currents

• Gyres