
Ocean Currents & Global/Local Winds
Authored by Samantha Stevenson
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6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Imagine you are on a voyage sailing around the world. Two weeks into your trip the motor on your boat dies. How are you going to complete your trip?
By using the sails to continue sailing
By waiting for rescue without doing anything
By abandoning the boat and swimming to shore
By using the motor despite it being broken
Tags
NGSS.MS-ETS1-2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is an ocean current?
streamlike, water
mountainous, land
cloudlike, air
rocky, soil
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
NGSS.MS-ESS2-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Surface Currents: Fill in the blanks. ______, ________, ________ movements of water that occur at or ________ the surface of the ocean.
warm, horizontal, streamlike, near
cold, vertical, circular, above
salty, diagonal, turbulent, below
deep, slow, spiral, under
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Deep Currents: Fill in the blanks. ________, ________ movements of ocean water located far ________ the surface.
cold, streamlike, below
warm, circular, above
salty, slow, near
shallow, rapid, across
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the main cause of surface ocean currents?
movement, surface, wind
gravitational pull of the moon
volcanic activity
earthquake tremors
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
If wind alone caused surface ocean currents, the water would flow in a _________ line. Examine the diagram at right and you’ll see that the surface currents are __________. This is caused by the _________ of the Earth beneath the oceans.
straight, curved, rotation
curved, straight, gravity
zigzag, circular, tilt
wavy, spiral, revolution
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The _________ curving of moving objects from a straight path due to the Earth’s rotation is called the _________ effect.
apparent, Coriolis
visible, Doppler
gradual, Magnus
sudden, Bernoulli
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
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