Wind and Ocean Currents Review

______ causes surface currents.

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• density differences

• wind

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Which of the following are causes of Ocean Currents? (Select all that apply)

• Global Winds

• Differences in amount of water

• Differences in density

• Speed of the water

• Direction the water is moving

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Two types of ocean currents are

• local and global

• sea and land

• surface and deep

• warm and cold

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

• Cold

• Warm 

• Freezing

• Fresh

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A large rotating ocean current is called a:

• tsunami

• gyre

• wave

• swell

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What type of currents are potentially dangerous to swimmers, because they rapidly carry water offshore quickly?

• Surface Currents

• Longshore Currents

• Deep Currents

• Rip Currents

What is the EAC, that Crush uses in Finding Nemo?

• a Tsunami

• Waves of water in the Pacific

• Flow of water from Antarctica

• Current of water that flows along Australia

What type of currents are potentially dangerous to swimmers, because they rapidly carry water offshore?

• Surface Currents

• Longshore Currents

• Deep Currents

• Rip Currents

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What is this current's name?

• North Pacific

• Gulf Stream

• South Pacific

• Antarctic

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

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

• both

• neither

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