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Ocean Currents

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is one of the five major oceans?

a)

Atlantic

b)

Red Sea

c)

Persian Gulf

d)

Gulf of Mexico

2.

What is this a map of?

a)

Ocean Waves

b)

Trading routes

c)

Ocean Currents

d)

Streams

3.

What is an ocean current?

a)

The movement of freshwater

b)

The movement of sea creatures

c)

The movement of seawater

d)

The movement of wind

4.

Salinity is know as what?

a)

Sand

b)

Gravel

c)

Salt

d)

Dirt

5.

If there is high level of salinity then there will be high level of what?

a)

Density

b)

Sand

c)

Temperature

d)

Dirt

6.

What is the fastest ocean current in the world?

a)

The North Atlantic Current

b)

The Gulf Stream

c)

The Kuroshio Current

d)

The Equatorial Counter Current

7.

Who discovered Ocean currents?

a)

Albert Eisenstein

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Matthew Fontaine Maury

d)

Jacques Cousteau

8.

What is the biggest ocean current in the world?

a)

The Gulf Stream

b)

The Humboldt Current

c)

The California Current

d)

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

9.

What is the study of ocean current called?

a)

Chemistry

b)

Biology

c)

Geology

d)

Physical Oceanography

10.

How many types of ocean currents are there?

a)

2

b)

5

c)

1

d)

9

11.

The timezone that ocean currents were getting studied was?

a)

1724-1726

b)

1533-1545

c)

1922-1938

d)

1844-1861

12.

Which region has the most currents in the world?

a)

The Polar Region

b)

The African Region

c)

The Oceania Region

d)

The European Region

13.

Why is upwelling important?

a)

It pushes nutrients to the surface.

b)

It filters seawater

c)

Sea animals like it

d)

It makes plants in the sea warm

14.

By the time it will be 2025 what ocean current will "collapse"?

a)

Alaska Current

b)

California Current

c)

The Gulf Of Mexico

d)

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current

15.

Say if you discovered a new ocean current, what would you name it ?

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