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What factors are responsible for the formation of oceanic gyres?
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A gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis Effect, planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl.
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What are gyres?
Currents make circular patterns called gyres. The gyres in the nothern hempisphere run clockwise, and the gyres in the Southern hepmisphere run counter clock wise.
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.
Describe the similarities and differences between gyres and currents?
A difference between gyres and currents is that currents are formed by the wind, but gyres are formed by currents.
If south America were not there how would the direction of the South America Equatorial Current alter?
The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would be one Ocean and the whole global oceanic gyres would alter to accommodate.
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
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
How are gyres made?
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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 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.
How do gyres form?
The Coriolis effect.
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
What are large roughly circular ocean c urrents called?
Large, roughly circular ocean currents are called gyres.
