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What are gyres and what is the difference between gyres in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere?
Gyres flow clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. While gyres in the Southern Hemisphere flow counterclockwise.
Which way do currents rotate in the southern hemisphere?
The gyres rotate counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere, and clockwise in the northern hemisphere.
What direction does the South Atlantic Ocean Gyre travel?
counterclockwise - All gyres in the southern hemisphere travel counterclockwise
Do the gyres of the northern hemisphere circulate in a counterclockwise direction?
gyres in the northern hemisphere circulate clockwise, while the gyres in the southern hemisphere circulate counterclockwise
Why are the gyres in the northern hemisphere separate from the gyres in the southern hemisphere?
The currents flow in opposite directions due to the Coriolis effect.
What is difference similiarity currents and gyres?
similarity is currents form gyres. difference is currents are any movement of water in one specific direction and gyres are circular patterns of water
Where are the 5 major gyres?
there are five gyres in the world, they are the north pacific, the south pacific, the north Atlantic, the south Atlantic, and the Indian ocean gyres.
Why do gyres flow in giant circular patterns?
its because currents form gyres and the wind is so much that it found a circular patterns
Why do major surface current gyres in the northern hemisphere flow clockwise?
The Coriolis effect causes northern gyres to spin clockwise.
What direction do gyres move in the southern hemisphere?
It turns clockwise
What direction do fluids flow?
Downward, Downriver, Downhill, the direction gravity pulls everything.
Which direction does river nile flow does it flow north south east or west?
south to north
