Ocean Current Vocab quiz

Incoming solar radiation

• sunshine

• gamma rays

• SPF

• insolation

Plastic debris in the ocean with an unknown source

• Mystery plastic

• Nonpoint source pollution

• Microplastics

• Legos

This is caused by the earth's rotation and results in currents in the northern hemisphere flowing clockwise and currents in the southern hemisphere flowing counter-clockwise.

• polar effect

• coriolis effect

• gyre effect

• centripetal force

circular vortices of ocean waters

• eddies

• coriolis

• gyres

• centrifuge

This cold current circles around Antarctica

• Gulf Stream

• Antarctic Circumpolar Current

• Westwind Drift

• Labrador

Deep currents flowing vertically through the ocean are part of the...

• thermohaline circulation

• heat exchange

• upwelling

• Gulf Stream

the salt content of water

• salinity

• saltiness

• SPF

• brackishness

circulating patterns of ocean currents around 30 degree latitude

• eddies

• whirlpools

• gyres

• currents

The movement of water (or other elements) from the bottom of the ocean to the surface

• thermohaline circulation

• heat exchange

• upwelling

• Gulf Stream

A series of trash vortices; mostly a soup of tiny microplastics

• Garbage patch

• Nonpoint source pollution

• Trash dump

• Garbage island

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