Wind and Ocean Currents

Which of the following are causes of Ocean Currents? (Select all that apply)

• Global Winds

• Differences in amount of water

• Differences in density

• Speed of the water

• Direction the water is moving

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Two types of ocean currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface and deep

• warm and cold

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Warm air over land and cool air over the sea causes

• land breeze

• sea breeze

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Surface ocean currents are generated mostly by

• the Coriolis effect

• water density

• tides

• wind

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The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 

• Gulf Stream

• California Current

• North Equatorial Current

• Brazil Current

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The Gulf stream carries _____________ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.

• Cold

• Warm 

• Freezing

• Fresh

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The way Earth's rotation makes the winds curve

• Coriolis Effect

• Cuticle Effect

• Revolution

• rotation

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How do warm-water currents affect the coastal areas along which they flow?

• Cool the coast

• Warm the coast

• Cause snow to fall

• Cause higher tides

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Currents that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called 

• Deep Currents

• Convection Currents

• Surface Currents

• Wave Currents

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What causes the Coriolis Effect?

• Ocean currents

• Air Masses

• The Equator

• Earth's rotation

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