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Alaska, Gulf stream, Norwegian, California, Labrador, Canary, and Kuroshio currents.
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What type of pattern does ocean currents make?
Circular wind patterns create spiral ocean currents called gyres. There are five major gyres flowing both north and south of the equator: the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific and Indian Ocean gyres.
What is the surface currents north of the equator are?
Because of the spinning of the Earth, wind and ocean currents closest to the equator will travel straighter. Wind and ocean currents further from the equator will deflect away from the equator.Ê
Why ocean currents that originate near equator is warm?
As the equator is warm, the currents that originate from there are also warm.
How are hot and cold currents formed?
where do warm and cold currents begin?warm from the mid ocean ( equator )cold North and South pole
Why do warm ocean currents cool as they flow along a coastline away from the equator?
Warm ocean currents cool as they flow along a coastline away from the equator because sand and minerals are transported by ocean currents away from the equator.
What direction do surface currents near the equator?
Ocean currents flow near the equator from the east to west. Ocean currents flow near the poles from west to east.
What Causes the wind and surface currents to turn?
The coriolis effect. The spinning of the Earth on it's axis necessarily produces a rotation in wind and water currents on the Earth's surface due to the fact that the equator moves at a faster rate of speed than any points approaching the poles. This creates a counterclockwise rotation of currents in the northern hemisphere and clockwise rotation south of the equator. It also creates a deflection of currents to the right north of the equator and a deflection to the left south of the equator, essentially causing the currents to deflect in a clockwise direction north of the equator and counterclockwise south of the equator (opposite their localized spin). Thus the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic currents around the Atlantic Ocean move clockwise around the ocean, yet hurricanes in the North Atlantic spin counterclockwise locally. Other factors such as change in surface heat (sea/land breezes) and gravity (sun and moon creating tidal currents) also exist.
What direction do surface currents near the equator flow?
Ocean currents flow near the equator from the east to west. Ocean currents flow near the poles from west to east.
Ocean currents moving away from the equator bring what waters?
Ocean currents moving away from the equator bring warm waters.
Ocean currents flow from east to west near the?
Equator due to the trade winds pushing the surface waters westward. This creates the Equatorial Counter Current, which flows eastward at the surface.
What is true about ocean currents moving toward the equator?
It is cold..
Why does not fit Toronto in the tundra biome?
It is because the Tundra is more up north and Toronto is more by the equator. And because there are ocean currents, that cause that
