Quiz: Ocean Currents

Surface Currents are primarily driven by:

• Temperature

• Wind

• Salinity

• animals

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Deep currents are primarily driven by:

• Temperature and Salinity

• Wind

• Animals

• Gravitational Pull of the moon.

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Large circular loops of water bounded by equatorial western, eastern, northern, and southern boundaries are called:

• tides

• waves

• gyres

• convection

  currents

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Western Boundary currents are usually:

• Warm

• cool

• icy

• boilling

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Eastern Boundary currents are usually:

• Warm

• cool

• icy

• boilling

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East Australian Current

• Masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another.

• The warm western boundary current of the South Pacific Gyre

• The movement of deeper nutrient rich water into the surface.

• The high-intensity western boundary current of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre the flow off the East Coast of the United States

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Gulf Stream:

• Masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another.

• The warm western boundary current of the South Pacific Gyre

• The movement of deeper nutrient rich water into the surface.

• The high-intensity western boundary current of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre the flow off the East Coast of the United States

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Ocean Current:

• Masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another.

• The warm western boundary current of the South Pacific Gyre

• The movement of deeper nutrient rich water into the surface.

• The high-intensity western boundary current of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre the flow off the East Coast of the United States

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Upwelling:

• Masses of ocean water that flow from one place to another.

• The warm western boundary current of the South Pacific Gyre

• The movement of deeper nutrient rich water into the surface.

• The high-intensity western boundary current of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre the flow off the East Coast of the United States

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The Gulf Stream moves ___________water.

• Cool

• Warm

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