Oceans Currents

A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind.

• Gulf Stream

• Global Conveyor Belt

• Surface Current

• Gyre

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Which of the following redirects ocean currents?

• Coriolis Effect

• Fish and Plankton

• Minerals in the water

• Solar energy

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Deep water currents are a result of salinity and temperature. Water moves like a conveyor belt across the globe. This process is called...

• Thermometer Currents

• Deep water currents

• Thermohaline Circulation

• Salinity Currents

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Two types of ocean currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface water and deep water

• warm and cold

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A large rotating ocean current is called a:

• tsunami

• gyre

• wave

• swell

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What type of currents are potentially dangerous to swimmers, because they rapidly carry water offshore quickly?

• Surface Currents

• Longshore Currents

• Deep Currents

• Rip Currents

Temperature and salinity are the two factors affecting which type of current?

• Mid-ocean ridges

• Deep Currents

• Surface Currents

• High tide and low tide

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Surface currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns

• Earth's Rotation

• Density

• All of the above

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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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What happens to a current when it comes in contact with a continent or landmass?

• It continues over the continent

• It stops

• It changes direction

• It is absorbed by the land