Ocean Currents

Surface currents are a result of...

• Global Wind Patterns

• Earth's Rotation

• Density

• All of the Above

Deep Ocean currents are a result of...

• Global Wind Patterns

• Earth's Rotation

• Density

• All of the above

The Coriolis Effect is caused by...

• Earth rotating around the sun

• Earth rotating on its axis

• The tides

• Gravity

The Gulf Stream carries _______ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.

• Cold

• Warm

• Freezing

• Fresh

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

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• both

• neither

Regular movements of water far below the oceans surface are called...

• Warm currents

• deep currents

• shallow currents

• surface currents

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

Where is the ocean water the densest?

• The surface

• The middle

• The bottom

• Lake Michigan

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• stop moving

• change direction

• continue in the direction they were going