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What upwelling of water from deepest layers of the ocean is the wind induced?
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While not always blowing in the same direction, on average, global winds drag on the water's surface, causing it to move and build up in the direction that the wind is blowing. The coriolis effect causes these wind driven currents to form gyres. Differential drag driven from the surface layers to a depth of about 100m causes the formation of Ekman spirals, the effect of which is to cause the deeper layers to flow in the opposite direction to the surface.
However, the turnover from the DEEPEST layers of the ocean (The Global Conveyor Belt) is NOT driven by the wind but by differences in the water's density, which is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline) - a process called thermohaline circulation.
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Describe the two steps of upwelling?
Upwelling is water raising from deep in the ocean to the surface. It can be caused by wind ar density currents.
How does upwelling affect the distribution of nutrients of the ocean?
Upwelling brings up tiny ocean organisms, minerals, and other nutrients from the deeper layers of the water. Without this motion, the surface waters of the open ocean would be very scarce in nutrients.
What is the earths deepest points?
The deepest point in any ocean is the Mariana Trench (aka Challenger Deep) in the western Pacific Ocean at 11,033 metres deep.
An upwelling brings nutrients from the floor of the ocean to the surface?
TRUE
The rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface water is called?
Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface are called surface currents. So logically, a deep current are streamlike movements of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor.
Is the altantic ocean the deepest ocean on earth?
No, Pacific Ocean is the deepest one.
Is the Atlantic ocean the deepest ocean on earth?
No, the Pacific Ocean has the deepest trenches.
Which is a deepest SEA on the Earth?
the deepest ocean in the world is the pacific ocean
Deepest point of the ocean how deep is it?
The deepest ocean is 36,200ft deep
Deepest point of the ocean is?
The deepest point in the ocean is The Mariana Trench.
Where is the ocean the deapest?
The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific. The deepest point in the ocean is the Mariana Trench.
If the Atlantic ocean is the second deepest ocean what is the deepest ocean?
No, The Pacific Ocean has the deepest trenches.no. the deepest ocean is the pacific. it's deepest point is the mariana trench which is nearly 11 km deep. the pacific is also the largest ocean covering nearly a third of the earths surface
