Ocean Circulation Lesson

Two types of water currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface and deep

• warm and cold

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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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A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

• Gulf Stream

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Current

• Gyre

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The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean.

• California Current

• Surface Current

• Gyre

• Global Conveyor Belt

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Decreasing ocean temperature causes

• molecules to slow down and the density to increase

• molecules to speed up and the density to decrease

• molecules to slow down and the density to decrease

• molecules to speed up and the density to increase

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Nutrients are brought to the surface for phytoplankton to use at ________.

• upwellings

• downwellings

• eddies

• gyres

The layer in a large body of water in which temperature drops with increasing depth faster than it does in other layers is called the __________.

• thermocline

• pycnocline

• downwelling

• upwelling

What role do gyres, like the Gulf Stream, play in Earth's climate?

• transporting nutrients from poles to the equator

• transporting heat from high latitudes to low latitudes

• transporting warm Pacific Ocean water to Florida

• transporting heat from equator to poles

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What factors will determine the direction that sneakers lost from a cargo ship will travel?

• water temperature and salinity

• wind and water temperature

• position of landmasses and water density

• wind, position of landmasses, Coriolis Effect

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Why would you expect to find denser water at high latitudes?

• sea ice formation

• evaporation

• rapid glacial melting

• cold water can dissolve more salt and oxygen

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