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Winds and subsea movement of water.
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What causes ocean currents and why is it important?
waves
What is directly related to deep ocean current?
Movement of the ocean, or tides are directly related to deep ocean currents. Deep ocean currents are also responsible for the wind that causes the waves to crash into the shore.
What type of current is caused by wind on the oceans surface?
Surface ocean currents are caused by winds. As wind blows across the surface, the wind pulls the water and causes waves.
How are ocean waves and ocean currents the same?
beats me XD
What are deep ocean currents primarily driven by?
Temperature differences in water
Is a ocean lentic or lotic water?
It has to be Lotic, because of waves and currents.
The wind stirs up currents?
Surface
What are causes of the ocean currents?
The two causes of ocean currents are wind and the rotation of the earth(etc) The wind blows which makes the currents in the water and the rotation of the earth(gravity) makes currents in the ocean currents. Luaye Sharawy
A scientist that studies waves and ocean currents is a?
An oceanographer.
A scientist who studies waves and ocean currents?
Physical oceanography is the special area of oceanography that deals with currents and waves. It is the study of physical attributes of the ocean.
Does the Indian Ocean have big waves and tides and strong currents?
yes, but the Indian Ocean DOES NOT have stronger currents than the Pacific Ocean..:{D
Why ocean currents flow from Atlantic ocean to Mediterranean sea?
because there are waves
