What is a current?
A body of water moving a specific direction.
What is a gulf stream?
A stream that can take a thousand years to move.
What is an eddy current?
Smaller currents that only last a few months.
What causes currents?
Currents are caused by wind, gravity and density.
What is a gyre current?
Spinning currents, gyres are found in tropical areas; wind-driven currents and the Coriolis effect affect the gyres.
What is a long shore current?
Currents that come in at an angle pushing the water toward shore.
What is an upwelling current?
Currents that happen when surface wind pushes the surface water north, causing the cold water to go up on shore.
What is the Global Conveyer Belt?
One giant, deep current that travels, causing the Ocean to move around the temperature of the water towards other areas
What is a rip current?
Is when some of the waves pushed aside, makes a path in the middle so that the water can go opposite as the waves.
What is thermohaline?
Thermohaline is heat and salt.
Summary:
Ocean currents are important for many reasons. Ocean currents have the ability to distribute heat to the equators and poles. It also makes a big affect in out climates. It even brings nutrients from the bottom of the ocean to the surface. Upwelling currents are important for fishing, pushing water away from shore and bringing the deep water to come up. The Global Conveyor Belt current helps travel around the world and moves the temperature of the water towards other areas by circulating. They are other currents that are very important like the gyres, rips, and long shore currents. Ocean currents are very significant to us by their special abilities like distributing heat to equators and poles.
A body of water moving a specific direction.
What is a gulf stream?
A stream that can take a thousand years to move.
What is an eddy current?
Smaller currents that only last a few months.
What causes currents?
Currents are caused by wind, gravity and density.
What is a gyre current?
Spinning currents, gyres are found in tropical areas; wind-driven currents and the Coriolis effect affect the gyres.
What is a long shore current?
Currents that come in at an angle pushing the water toward shore.
What is an upwelling current?
Currents that happen when surface wind pushes the surface water north, causing the cold water to go up on shore.
What is the Global Conveyer Belt?
One giant, deep current that travels, causing the Ocean to move around the temperature of the water towards other areas
What is a rip current?
Is when some of the waves pushed aside, makes a path in the middle so that the water can go opposite as the waves.
What is thermohaline?
Thermohaline is heat and salt.
Summary:
Ocean currents are important for many reasons. Ocean currents have the ability to distribute heat to the equators and poles. It also makes a big affect in out climates. It even brings nutrients from the bottom of the ocean to the surface. Upwelling currents are important for fishing, pushing water away from shore and bringing the deep water to come up. The Global Conveyor Belt current helps travel around the world and moves the temperature of the water towards other areas by circulating. They are other currents that are very important like the gyres, rips, and long shore currents. Ocean currents are very significant to us by their special abilities like distributing heat to equators and poles.