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Ocean Currents Fill In The Blanks

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Question: What directions are winds in the 5-30 degrees latitude?Answer: Southeast, remember they are named for where they
Question: Going from the North pole to the equator name the atmospheric convection in orderAnswer: , ferell, hadley
Question: Going from the North pole to the equator name the winds you would expect to Answer: Polar easterlies, Westerlies, winds
Question: At what degrees of do you see the duldroms?Answer:
Question: At what degrees of latitude do you see the latitudes?Answer: 30 degrees
Question: What is the eastern boundary of the Norht pacific gyre?Answer: current
Question: What is the western boundary of the North Atlantic gyre?Answer: Gulf
Question: What is the warm current of the North Pacific gyreAnswer: Kuroshio current (western )
Question: What is the warm water current of the south gyre?Answer: brazil curent (western )
Question: What four currents make up the atlantic gyre?Answer: Gulf stream, north atlantic drift, current, and the north equatorial in order
Question: Name five warm currentsAnswer: Agulhas, Alaska, brazil, east australian, equitorial, gulf stream, kuroshio, atlantic drift, north pacific drift,
Question: Name five cool currentsAnswer: benguela, california, , humboldt (peru), labrador, oyashio (kamchatka), west australian, west wind drift (ACC)
Question: What are the four characteristics of western currentsAnswer: fast-moving, narrow, warm, and
Question: What are the four characteristics of boundary currents?Answer: slow-moving, , cool, and shallow
Question: Which direction does water flow in the northern in comparison to the wind?Answer: 90 right
Question: direction does water flow in the southern hemisphered in comparision to the wind?Answer: 90 degrees
Question: What two are in balance for geostrophic balanceAnswer: coriolis pushing water to center of gyre and gravity pushing it down the
Question: What factors affect the direction of the surface currents?Answer: wind (uneven solar heating), continents/land masses, and geostrophic .
Question: Which direction would water move in the Southern hemsiphere there are westerlies?Answer: to the northeast as the winds are (made in the NW)
Question: Which direction would the water move in the Northern hemisphere the trade winds are blowing?Answer: Northwest as the winds are made in the
Question: What is another name for the Humboldt ?Answer: Peru
Question: What kind of weather is associated with eastern boundary ?Answer: dry cool climate
Question: At what to you see the air rising leading to more precipitation?Answer: equator and polar front (60 latitude N and S)
Question: What happens to air at 30 degrees?Answer: They fall as they are and have lost their moisture. (DESERTS ARE HERE)
Question: What is the convection cell at 45 south?Answer: Ferell
Question: What is the only one to entirley circumnavigate the Earth?Answer: Anarctic circumpolar
Question: What type of fish are born in fresh water but l live most of lives in ocean water?Answer: Anadromous
Question: What is the large sea on the western side of the Atlantic gyre?Answer: Sargasso
Question: How long do most plastics take to ?Answer: over 100
Question: What are the forces that are moving currents in gyres?Answer: gravity from hill of water, coriolis from , continents
Question: What is the curving of water due to the spinning of the called?Answer: effect
Question: What is the of water 90 degrees to the right of the wind in the N. Hemisphere called?Answer: Ekman
Question: If a wind in a northerly wind in the Southern hemisphere, which direction is the net transport of ?Answer: (northerly wind comes from north), so it is of the wind meaning it is going EAST
Question: How are winds named using ?Answer: from they are coming from.
Question: How is a current described?Answer: By where it is to
Question: What are the two of upwelling?Answer: coastal and
Question: What is the main from upwelling?Answer: nutrients come from of the ocean
Question: What is the deep circulation often referred to as the global conveyer belt?Answer: circulation
Question: What force is equalizing coriolis and continental for gyres to form the geostrophic balance?Answer: Gravity of the hill of
Question: What is the phenomenon that when water all converges on one spot in the ocean?Answer: downwelling: water is pushed
Question: What are the small circulation loops that spin off western boundary currents like the gulf ?Answer: eddies
Question: What is Davy ' locker?Answer: A middle layer of water where as ocean in depth the density increases so bodies or other objects that sink at the surface get trapped and can't sink any deeper.
 
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