Topic 7.3 Patterns of Circulation in the Ocean

What is the primary cause of ocean currents?

• Wind

• Earth's rotation

• Salinity

• Temperature

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Ocean currents are primarily driven by the ______.

• Moon

• Sun

• Wind

• Tides

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What is a current?

• A small stream of water

• A large stream of moving water that flows through the ocean

• A stationary body of water

• A type of fish.

Currents carry water from one place to another. They can affect ______ ecosystems.

• desert

• forest

• ocean

• mountain

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What primarily drives surface currents in the ocean?

• A) Tides

• B) Global winds

• C) Earth's rotation

• D) Temperature differences.

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Surface currents move water at the surface of the ocean and affect water to a depth of ______.

• a few meters

• several hundred meters

• several kilometers

• the ocean floor

What drives the patterns of ocean circulation?

• Only Earth's rotation

• Unequal heating and Earth's rotation

• Only unequal heating

• None of the above.

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Warm currents move ______ from the equator.

• A) toward

• B) away

• C) parallel

• D) none of the above

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What is the Coriolis Effect?

• The way Earth's rotation makes currents curve.

• The way the sun heats the Earth.

• The way the moon affects tides.

• The way mountains form.

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In the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis Effect causes currents to curve to the ____.

• left

• right

• north

• south

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