Surface Ocean Currents

Currents that within the first few hundred meters of the ocean are called

• Deep Currents

• Convection Currents

• Surface Currents

• Wave Currents

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What are a circular system of currents in the Earth's major oceans?

• ocean current

• gyre

• upwelling

• conveyor belt

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Surface currents are mainly caused by

• The Coriolis Effect

• Cold and Warm Water

• Convection

• Wind

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What happens to a current when it comes in contact with a continent or landmass?

• It continues over the continent

• It stops

• It changes direction

• It is absorbed by the land

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What is the EAC, that Crush uses in Finding Nemo?

• a Tsunami

• Waves of water in the Pacific

• Flow of water from Antarctica

• Current of water that flows along Australia

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What is this current's name?

• North Pacific

• Gulf Stream

• South Pacific

• Antarctic

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What do the arrows on the map represent?

• size of waves

• water weight

• ocean currents

• time between tides

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Where do warm currents originate from?

• the Equator

• the poles

• Hawaii

• Iceland

An intense, warm ocean current in the western North Atlantic Ocean is the

• doldrums

• jet stream

• gulf stream

• Greenhouse effect

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A large rotating ocean current is called a:

• tsunami

• gyre

• wave

• swell

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