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Upwelling is caused by currents on the surface. When water moves from the bottom of the ocean towards the surface it is called upwelling. Downwelling is when more dense water sinks. This process moves nutrients back to the deep part of the ocean.
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What causes upwelling?
Wind
How is upwelling significant to ocean dynamics?
Upwellings cause phytoplankton and other fish-eaten prey to be able to grow more toward the surface, due to this, more fish are able to prosper closer to the surface and in turn, allow fisherman to fish more as well.
The abundance of nutrients at the ocean's surface is a result of?
It is caused by a process called upwelling.
Images and info on desert formation made by water wind and weathering?
Deserts are formed from geologic or climatic conditions that restrict the amount of rainfall or precipitation to a particular area. An example is a mountain range that removes water from the air as it rises, leaving a "rain shadow" on the downwind side. The sand in deserts comes from erosion, and a lot of it. The earth is basically a huge rock and when the elements erode it you get sand. The familiar wavy dunes are formed by the wind. It does rain in the desert every now and then, but much less than in other climates.
What are the upwelling and downwelling compare and contrasted?
go find it out your self
How do subsurface lake waters cool down in the fall?
Upwelling/downwelling, do some research on these.
Upwelling is important to sealife because?
Downwelling is the process of accumulating higher density material beneath lower-density material, which can create currents along with the inverse process of upwelling. This is important for deep-sea creatures because it helps regulate the temperature of the oceans.
How is wind driven ekman transport related to coastal upwelling and downwelling?
They are both wind driven, if the Ekman Transport is moving in towrds the shore then downwelling will pull water from it and move it down and out. While when the Ekman Transport is moving out away from shore up welling will pull water up and feed the Transport. Note all directions are based on 90 degrees to the left or right fo the wind direction depending on wich Hemisphere.
What downwelling defined as?
Downwelling is the process of accumulation and sinking of higher density material beneath lower density material. A common example is convection currents in fluids.
What are the two steps in upwelling?
The two steps of upwelling is
Which is an example of a vertical current?
upwelling current upwelling current
An upwelling brings nutrients from the floor of the ocean to the surface?
TRUE
How can you use upwelling in a sentence?
When my dad is mad, you can hear the upwelling in his voice.
When is upwelling weaker during a normal pattern El Niño or La Nina event?
During El Nino upwelling is weaker. During La Nina upwelling increases. During a normal pattern the upwelling rises.
How does upwelling bring fish or nutrients to the surface?
how does upwelling bring fish and nutrients to the surface
What do you mean by upwelling?
Ocean upwelling is a phenomena where cooler deep ocean currents come to the surface, with the usual mechanism being the driving of the water by wind. A more general definition is one that includes the idea of "rising from below or within" as an upwelling of emotion. Here are a couple of sentences: An upwelling of anger fueled his outburst.The thought of the passing of her uncle triggered an upwelling of tears.
