Ocean Currents

What affects the density of water?

• Salt

• Temperature

• The seasons of the year

• Salt and Temperature

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• Stop moving
• Are deflected (change paths)
• Continue in the direction they were going

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Two types of ocean currents are

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

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What are a circular system of currents in the Earth's major oceans?

• ocean current

• gyre

• upwelling

• conveyor belt

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The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 

• Gulf Stream
• California Current
• North Equatorial Current
• Brazil Current

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Ocean currents move energy in the form of

• Salt
• Water
• Heat
• Oxygen

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Ocean currents bring warm water from the equator towards Earth's

• Southern Hemisphere
• Continents
• Equator
• Poles

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Salinity is

• The salt content of a substance

• The Pepper content of a substance

• The circulation of hot and cold matter

• the weather pattern of a region

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What heats the Earth's oceans?

• People

• Boats

• a heater

• sun

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______ causes deep ocean currents

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• wind

• density differences

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