answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Ocean currents affect the surrounding land masses in large ways. This is because ocean currents have the ability to take down large chunks of land.

User Avatar

Wiki User

9y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

It changes direction and veers off. Sometimes it splits into two.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What happens to ocean currents when they hit land mass?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What factor has greatest influence on the direction of the air mass?

ocean currents


The North Pole is a land mass as big as Texas true or false?

False, It is not even a land mass, it is an ocean. The North Pole is a point which happens to fall in the Arctic Ocean. It can be reached by travelling over the pack ice of the Arctic Ice Sheet which covers the Arctic ocean.


What factor has the greatest influence in the direction of the air mass track?

ocean currents


How did the single land mass separate into the continents you see today?

through convection currents


Is the Indian Ocean a continent?

The Indian Ocean is a body of water, a continent is a land mass.


The portion of the land mass that extends into the ocean is called?

shelf


What The portion of the land mass that extends into the ocean is called?

A Gulf


What is Portion of land mass that extends into the ocean is called?

A Gulf


What is the capital of the Pacific?

It is an ocean so it has no land mass and no capital.


What is a part of sea of ocean that cuts into a mass of land?

Gulf


What are characteristics of warm ocean currents?

an warm air mass takes on the characteristics of the region over witch it forms.


What capital letter is the pacific ocean?

It is an ocean so it has no land mass and no capital.