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Ocean currents
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What is the movement of water from the deep ocean to the surface?
Conveyor Belt Cycling describes the movement of the ocean water between surface and deep water.
What is a deep current-?
Deep current is a movement of the ocean water. The ocean waters current is continuous.
What is the movement of cold water up from the deep ocean?
gulfstream
What caused circulations in deep water?
The movement of deep water in the ocean basins is by density driven forces and gravity.
What are deep ocean currents primarily driven by?
Temperature differences in water
A streamlike movement of ocean water located far below the surface?
Deep currents
What is a movement of ocean water that forms far below the surface of the ocean called?
The water that forms far below the surface is called a Deep Current.
What is the primary difference between surface currents and deep currents?
Compare and contrast surface currents and deep currents. They are both are moving water that flows through oceans. Surface currents are towards the top of the ocean, can be warm or cold, and are controlled by winds. Deep currents are low, deep in the ocean, cold, and are controlled by density.
What do deep currents cause?
They cause movement of the ocean.
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 are the two types of ocean currents?
deep currents streamlike movement of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor. surface current can influence the climate of land are they flow past.
What other ocean floor feature is formed by movement of Earth's plates?
what other ocean floor feature is fromed by movement of earth's plates
