Hydrology: water cycle & currents

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Waves can be measured in many different ways. Even though waves have different parts to them they all must have the following: Need a medium, Move matter, Need energy to start them and transfer energy with them, A frequency that is higher than resonance

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Need energy to start them and transfer energy with them

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How do surface ocean waves form?

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Wind blowing across the surface

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Currents that are far beneath the surface

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deep ocean currents

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What is the name of the largest and most powerful surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean?

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Gulf Stream

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What is the name of a climate event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean?

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El Nino

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What process brings nutrient rich deep cold ocean water up to the surface?

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Upwelling

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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.

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Surface Current

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Cold ocean currents generally come from

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Both Poles

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Two types of water currents are

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surface and deep

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The amount of dissolved solids present in the water

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salinity