Global Conveyor Belt

Where is ocean water the densest?

• The surface
• The middle
• The bottom
• Lake Michigan

Deep Ocean currents are a result of

• Global Wind Patterns
• Earth's Rotation
• Density

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Two types of water currents are

• local and global
• sea and land
• surface and deep
• warm and cold

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What are two things that drive the global conveyor belt?

• salinity and temperature
• temperature and tides
• the moon and salinity
• temperature and the moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

As salinity  increases

• Density increases
• Density decreases

When an object or substance is cooler, its particles move slower and are closer together True Or False

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When an object or substance is warmer, its particles move faster and get further apart (Tip for remembering: they are warmer and want to get cooler by moving away from one another)  True or False

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

True or False Salinity increases as ocean depth increases.

• True
• False

Evaporation _______ salinity.

• increases
• decreases

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The high salinity of the Mediterranean Sea is due primarily to —

• Precipitation
• Deposition
• Volcanoes
• Evaporation