Currents and Climate

What process brings the deep cold ocean currents up to the surface?

• Conduction

• Global Wind Patterns

• Convection Currents

• Temperature and salinity

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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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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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In convection, WARM air

• Rises

• Sinks

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What is one role of the ocean in convection?

• to provide a home for animals

• to absorb & release heat

• To surf on

• To drink from

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Which of the following is most likely a cause of hurricanes?

• Cooler ocean temperatures

• Warmer ocean temperatures

• Large ocean waves

• Strong ocean currents

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A hurricane forms over the Atlantic Ocean. When it hits land and comes ashore, its wind speed decrease significantly.  This happens because the hurricane:

• gains more water from the flooded land than the ocean

• meets a land breeze

• meets a stronger hurricane moving from land

• no longer gains energy from warm ocean water

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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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The circular movement of matter due to density, temperature, and salinity drives __________.

• dense

• sun

• more

• temperature

• ocean currents

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What 3 factors most directly affect surface currents in the ocean? 

• Dissolved solids, gases & energy

• Upwelling, convection & sun's energy

• Deep currents, convection currents & surface wind

• Surface wind, Coriolis effect & continental deflection

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