Ocean Current Vocabulary Quiz

The movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface, often along coastlines.

• Upwelling

• Coriolis effect

• The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

• Gulf Stream

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A large volume of water flowing in a certain direction

• ocean current

• surface currents

• Gulf Stream

• Coriolis effect

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What is defined as 0 degrees longitude?

• ocean current

• surface currents

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

Which term describes wind-driven currents?

• ocean current

• Prime Meridian

• Gulf Stream

• surface currents

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What is the large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean called?

• Equator

• Coriolis effect

• ocean current

• gyre

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What is a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by differences in density caused by temperature and salinity, also known as 'thermohaline circulation'?

• A) California Current

• B) The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

• C) Gulf Stream

• D) Equator

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What is located at 0 degrees latitude, where the Sun's rays are the most intense?

• A) Equator

• B) Prime Meridian

• C) ocean current

• D) gyre

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The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents is known as the ____.

• California Current

• ocean current

• Prime Meridian

• Coriolis effect

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What is the name of the warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean along the Eastern coast of North America?

• Gulf Stream

• California Current

• ocean current

• surface currents

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Fill in the blank: The _______ is a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean.

• California Current

• Gulf Stream

• surface currents

• ocean current

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