Ocean Currents Understnding Checkpoint

The two types of ocean currents are ______________ and _____________.

• Southern and Northern

• Eastern and Western

• Surface and Deep

• Air and Water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The amount of salt found in water is

• temperature

• salinity

• pollution

• density

Earth’s _____ causes ocean currents in the Northern Hemisphere to curve clockwise

• orbit around the sun

• spinning on its axis

• magnetic field

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Ocean currents have an effect on:

• climate and weather

• temperature and weather

• weather and density

• salinity and climate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

When a current comes into contact with a continent or landmass it

• continues over the continent

• stops

• changes direction

• is absorbed in the land

What process brings the deep cold oean currents up to the surface?

• density

• wind patterns

• temperature

• convection currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The Coriolis effect is caused by

• Earth rotating around the sun

• Earth rotating on its axis

• the tides

• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Warm ocean currents generally come from the area of the

• north pole

• south pole

• equator

• all of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and the Coriolis Effect.

• surface currents

• deep ocean currents

• Global Conveyor Belt

• convection currents

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The _____ is a system of constantly moving ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It circumnavigates the globe.

• California Current

• Global Conveyor Belt

• surface currents

• Gulf Stream

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6