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What creates recirculating currents and turbulent waters that can swamp vessels and drown boaters?
A low-head dam.
Which best describes the best way sunlight creates ocean currents?
Sunlight warms the waters on the ocean surface. Some heat energy is transferred to cooler waters through convection.
How do differences indensity cause currents to flow both in the surface waters of the ocean and in the bottom waters of the ocean?
As water is on top of the ocean, wind pushes it along, creating a current. As it warms, it interacts with lower colder waters, pulling them along with it. As water cools, it rises and this interaction creates ocean currents.
A ridge of sand built up by currents in a river or coastal waters?
ridge of sand built up by currents in a river or coastal waters
What does impact currents mean?
the waters of the ocean
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.
Ocean currents moving away from the equator bring what waters?
Ocean currents moving away from the equator bring warm waters.
What carries warm waters toward the poles?
Ocean currents.
Waters of the ocean that move in giant streams are called?
waters of the ocean that move in giant streams are called currents.
Do deep ocean currents and surface currents mix?
Deep ocean currents and surface currents do meet, but mixing is limited. The waters stratify based on temperatures and salinity. The higher the salinity, the heavier the water.
Can cyclones hit Adelaide?
Cyclones cannot hit Adelaide. Cyclones form in warm tropical waters, and then follow warm currents, but no warm currents extend from Australia's warmer waters to the south where Adelaide is located.
Are wind-driven currents near the surface or in the deep waters?
Vertically
