Wind and Ocean Currents

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

• clockwise

• counter-clockwise

• both

• neither

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Cold ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole 

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

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Ocean currents have an affect on which two things

• climate and weather

• temperature and density

• land and sea

• equator and poles

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Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the globe.

• California Current

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Currents

• Gulf Stream

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Why are surface currents at the surface of the ocean?

• colder temperature

• colder temperature & more salinty

• warmer temperature & less salinty

• less salinty

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What is the major source of energy that causes surface currents to form?

• Earth

• The sun

• The moon

• The equator

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What type of breeze may cause a person to experience the convection currents while standing on the beach?

• Land Breeze

• Sea Breeze

• Global Winds

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Why do the waters by the equator flow up to the polar regions?

• Equatorial waters are a colder temperature

• Equatorial waters are more dense

• Equatorial waters are less dense and warmer

• Equatorial waters do not flow up to the polar regions

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Ocean currents that move toward the poles are ___.

• Cold

• Warm

• Warm in the northern hemisphere and cold in the southern hemisphere

• Cold in the northern hemisphere and warm in the southern hemisphere

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The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun

• Earth rotating on its axis

• The tides

• Gravity

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