Ocean Currents and Wind

What does a surface current do when it deflects?

• Gains speed

• Moves toward cold water

• Meets another ocean current

• Changes direction

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Compared with surface currents, deep currents are

• Colder and less dense.

• warmer and denser.

• Warmer and less dense

• colder and denser.

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The Gulf Stream Current moves warm water from

• Peru to Polynesia

• lower to higher latitudes

• Higher to lower latitudes

• east to west

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Which continent deflects the Gulf Stream Current?

• North America

• Africa South America

• Asia

• South America

Which process increases the salinity of ocean water?

• The Coriolis effect

• Continental Deflection

• Evaporation

• Convection Currents

Which factors affect SURFACE ocean currents? (Choose all that apply)

• Earth's rotation

• salt content of water

• winds

• continents/landmasses blocking the movement of water

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The circular patterns of ocean currents found in each ocean basin are called __.

• whirlpools

• cyclones

• gyres

• thermohaline circulation

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Which factors affect DEEP ocean currents? (Choose all that apply)

• salt content of the water

• winds

• temperature of the water

• Coriolis Effect

• density of water

Which term describes this "deflection" in the movement of air due to Earth's rotation?

• prevailing winds

• Coriolis effect

• thermohaline circulation

• convection

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What causes winds to form?

• areas of low pressure moving to areas of high pressure

• air moving vertically in the atmosphere

• gravity

• uneven heating of Earth's surfaces

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