How are large currents created?
Mostly by wind, although temperature and salinity differences and tides caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun can have a big effect on currents.
Continents also has effect on how surface currents are produced.
Surface movement can be created by the wind. Properly speaking currents are generated by gravity or thermal energy.
Density currents circulate water because of density defferences.
Surface Currents
no, density currents flow slower than surface currents because surface currents are powered by the wind ;)
Surface ocean currents are caused by winds. As wind blows across the surface, the wind pulls the water and causes waves.
surface currents moves bcoz
Currents move the ocean water, therefore circulating it!
Deep ocean currents are in the depths of the oceans. Surface current are at the surface, not deep down. Deep ocean currents bring vitamins and nutrients to the shore, surface currents do not. Deep ocean currents are caused by salinity and temperature differences. Surface currents are cause by the force and impact of the wind.
Deep ocean currents are in the depths of the oceans. Surface current are at the surface, not deep down. Deep ocean currents bring vitamins and nutrients to the shore, surface currents do not. Deep ocean currents are caused by salinity and temperature differences. Surface currents are cause by the force and impact of the wind.
Ocean currents is what forms surface currents. This starts deep in the ocean.
the air in the atmosphere and the waters in our oceans circulate in known patterns in an effort to redistribute the energy. In the atmosphere, we end up with the prevailing wind bands in both hemispheres. In the oceans, we end up with both surface and deep water currents. It is the surface currents that have a marked effect on climate.
ocean currents and temperature
Currents move the ocean water, therefore circulating it!