Currents, Waves and Tides

The Coriolis Effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun
• Earth rotating on its axis
• The tides
• Magic water fairies

The Gulf stream carries _____________ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.

• Cold
• Warm 
• Freezing
• Fresh

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

Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• like a ninja

Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both North and South Poles

Cold ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole 
• The South Pole
• The Equator
• Both North and South Poles

Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the entire planet over periods of hundreds of years.

• California Current
• Global Conveyor Belt
• Surface Currents
• Gulf Stream

The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean; rotates like a tire.

• California Current
• Surface Current
• Gyre
• Global Conveyor Belt

An "underwater river" of water that flows in the ocean, formed because of density differences in ocean water.

• deep ocean current
• storm surge
• tide
• wave

Large stream of water that flows in the ocean that forms because of a steady wind blowing over the ocean surface.

• storm surge
• surface current
• tide
• water cycle