Ocean Waves and Currents

What causes surface currents?

• waves

• prevailing winds

• earthquakes

• fish

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What is the Coriolis Effect

• Deep sea currents

• It comes after the Coriolis Cause

• The effect of the Earth's rotation that causes wind to move in a curved path

• How salty the water is

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the current that brings warm Gulf waters to the western coast of Europe and England called?

• The Gulf Stream

• The Coriolis Effect

• Salinity

• The Arctic Blast

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What can we infer about water deep in the ocean?

• It is warmer than surface water.

• It is exactly the same temperature as surface water.

• It is cooler than surface water.

• It has no temperature.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Waves cause the push forward a surfer feels in the ocean.

• True

• False

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Surface currents affect weather and climate.

• True

• False

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What moves deep water currents? Choose ALL correct answers.

• temperature

• wind

• saltiness

• waves

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A wave is the up and down movement on the surface of the water.

• True

• False

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An ocean current is...

• up and down movement

• a tsunami

• caused by sharks

• moving water traveling in a path

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Surface currents move in large circular paths called _____.

• currents

• gyres

• waves

• oceans

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