Thermohaline Density currents

Three factors that influence surface currents are.

• The Coriolis Effect

• location of continents

• density differences

• Air currents (wind)

• temperature of the water

Which is NOT true about salty water?

• Floats on top of freshwater

• Higher density

• It has more molecules than freshwater

• It sinks at the bottom of a container

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun

• Earth rotating on its axis

• The tides

• Gravity

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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

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

• gravity and the Coriolis Effect

• temperature and salinity

• wind and climate

• temperature and the Coriolis Effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Where would typically find the most dense water in the ocean?

• The surface

• The middle

• The bottom

Ocean currents bring warm water from the equator towards Earth's

• Southern Hemisphere
• Continents
• Equator
• Poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Decreasing ocean temperature causes the density of the water to ______.

• decrease

• increase

• stay the same

• fluctuate

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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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Salinity increases as ocean depth increases

• true

• false