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What effects does the surface-wind pattern have on the circulation of the oceans?
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The movement of wind over the surface of the ocean causes friction. The wind drags the ocean surface with it, making the pattern called surface-ocean wind-drift currents.
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What is the percentage mass of oceans?
the percentage mass of the oceans in our world is about 71%
What is the largest reservoir of the water cycle?
The oceans. 97% of earth's water is in the oceans.
What five oceans are salt?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern
What is the Largest body of water on earth?
The Pacific Ocean.
What are scientists who study earth's oceans called?
Scientists who study earth's oceans are called oceanographers.
What is constant circulation of water from the atmosphere and oceans and back again?
Water cycle
What are analogies for blood circulation?
This system is similar to tiny streams, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Why did the oceans become shallower?
The oceans became shallower as part of the effects of global warming. The climate became drier and this has forced water to evaporate from the oceans.
What effects do ocean currents have on the ocean?
they change the oceans temperature.
What are the Astronomical Effects on the Oceans?
The only astronomical effects on the Oceans would be Tides, which put simply would read like this.'Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun.'
What is the difference between a poleward moving current and a equatorward moving ocean current?
The interaction between the oceans surface and the circulation of the lower atmosphere is the primary cause of the surface currents in the oceans. A current generally refers to the horizontal movement of water. The direction, speed, and the temperature of the water masses moved by the ocean currents play an important role in climatology by transporting heat energy. Currents may be small-scale, transient features, resulting from seasonal or local effects or large-scale, permanent features, covering vast portions of the oceans, resulting from atmospheric circulation patterns
What are the normal ocean circulation patterns?
The normal circulation patterns of the oceans are from east to west in the north. The circulation reverses in the south moving west to east.
What are the effects of floods with the oceans?
Floods on land have no effect on the oceans - APART from the increased sediment load which will take time to settle out after the flood waters enter the sea.
Is the oceanic and atmospheric circulation the reason for earth's energy imbalance?
No, the Earth does not have an energy imbalance, the energy affecting the Earth is mainly Sunlight and geothermal energy. The circulation of the oceans and atmosphere is a means by which these energies are distributed round the planet.
Another name for the thermohaline current is?
The thermohaline circulation is a term for the global density-driven circulation of the oceans. Derivation is from thermo- for heat and -haline for salt, which together determine the density of sea water
how to represent the diffusion and at least 2 effects of water in oceans?
Water duh🤒😂
How do oceans oceans effect us?
Oceans effects us by a lot of ways 1)U can drown in it 2)it have disease in it or salt or not clean water so once u drink it to ur body u can easily get sick
