Ocean Currents

______ cause surface currents.

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• density differences

• Surface wind patterns

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As plants and animals in the ocean die, the nutrients produced from their decay _____.

• are recycled by the Global Conveyor Belt

• sink to the bottom

• are destroyed by sunlight

• become coral reefs

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Nutrients are brought to the surface for phytoplankton to use at _______.

• gyres

• eddies

• upwellings

• the equator

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_______ causes the Coriolis Effect

• Earth's rotation

• gravity

• wind

• density

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Gyres in the northers hemisphere are surface currents that turn _________ due to the Coriolis Effect.

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

• toward the right

• toward the bottom of the ocean

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When looking at a satellite map of eddies, the cold-core eddies are more likely to have ________.

• downwellings

• upwellings

• very few nutrients

• very little dissolved oxygen

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Two types of ocean currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface and deep

• warm and cold

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Temperature and salinity differences in ocean water cause:

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Deep Currents

• Surface Currents

• High tide and low tide

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Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

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Movements of ocean water in a continuous flow are called?

• ocean currents

• global winds

• air mass

• front

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