ocean currents, waves & tides review

What causes vertical ocean currents?

• The phase of the moon.
• The gravitational attraction of the sun
• Commercial boating activities.
• The temperature and salinity of ocean water

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Water level rising is called

• Flood Tide

• Ebb Tide

• Spring Tide

• Neap Tide

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Where is ocean water the densest.

• The surface
• The middle
• The bottom
• Lake Michigan

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

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

• Gulf Stream
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Current
• Gyre

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Ocean water is more dense than fresh water at the same temperature due to differences in:  

• Wind patterns
•  Lifeforms
• Currents
• Salinity

Two types of water currents are

• local and global
• sea and land
• surface and deep ocean

• warm and cold

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The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean.

• California Current
• Surface Current
• Gyre
• Global Conveyor Belt

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The movement of deep, cold, nutrient filled water to the surface of the ocean is..

• Ocean Current

• Upwelling

• Deep Currents

• Surface Currents

What affects the density of water?

• Salt

• Temperature

• The seasons of the year

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