ocean currents

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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Warm ocean currents generally come from

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the globe.

• California Current
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Currents
• Gulf Stream

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• Gulf Stream
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Current
• Gyre

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• California Current
• Surface Current
• Gyre
• Global Conveyor Belt

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Heat transfer by convection is caused by differences in what two things:

• Thickness and material

• Weight and electricity

• Temperature and density

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The main reason that we have currents in the ocean and air is

• the sun heats the air and ocean evenly everywhere
• the heat inside the earth heats the ocean and the ocean heats the air
• the sun cannot heat both the air and water, so one must heat the other
• the sun heats air and water more at the equator because it receives more direct sunlight

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

In convection, COOL air

• Rises
• Sinks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6