Unit 3: Ocean Currents and Climate Review

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• Stop moving
• Are deflected (change paths)
• Continue in the direction they were going

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Ocean currents move energy in the form of

• Salt
• Water
• Heat
• Oxygen

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

• Southern Hemisphere
• Continents
• Equator
• Poles

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Salinity is

• The salt content of a substance

• The Pepper content of a substance

• The circulation of hot and cold matter

• the weather pattern of a region

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What heats the Earth's oceans?

• People

• Boats

• a heater

• sun

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Deep Ocean currents are primarily caused by

• temperature and salinity

• wind

• gravity

• precipitation

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Differences in water temperature create movement in the Ocean because

• bodies of water at different temperature have different densities.

• warm water is pulled more by the force of gravity then cold water is.

• warm and cold water mix until they reach the same temperature.

• The ocean just likes to "move-it move-it".

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which of these characteristics will produce the most dense water?

• high salinity, high temperature

• high salinity, low temperature

• low salinity, high temperature

• low salinity, low temperature

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Which of these characteristics will produce the least dense water?

• High salinity, high temperature

• High salinity, low temperature

• Low salinity, high temperature

• Low salinity, low temperature

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What is latitude?

• A measure of the distance away from the prime meridian.

• A measure of how warm a climate is.

• A measure of an angle in Math class.

• A measure of the distance away from the equator.