Currents Vocabulary Quiz

Which type of current creates warmer climates along a coastal area?

• Gulf Stream

• Warm-water

• Tropics

• Cold-water

What is the name of the ocean current that cools the West Coast of the United States?

• La Nina

• El Nino

• California Current

• Gulf Stream

What is the vertical movement of cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface of the ocean called?

• Gyre

• Coriolis effect

• Ocean current

• Upwelling

What is the change in water temperature of the Pacific Ocean that produces a warm surface current called?

• El Nino

• Buoys

• Drought

• La Nina

What is the circular system of currents called?

• Ocean current

• Coriolis effect

• Tropics

• Gyre

What is the name of the ocean current that creates cooler climates in coastal areas?

• cool water

• springs

• cold-water

• stream

Where the Gulf Stream and other warm currents originate?

• Tropics

• Temperate

• Drought

• Famine

Name the ocean current that helps warm the British Isles?

• California Current

• Gulf Stream

• Mexican Stream

• Tsunami Thunder

The NOAA uses this device to collect data to predict an El Nino?

• Submersible

• ROV

• Sonograph

• Buoys

Change in water temperature of teh eastern Pacific Ocean that produces cooler than usual surface water temperatures?

• Santa Maria

• La Nina

• La Pinta

• El Nino