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What factors create surface currents?
Surface currents are created by air currents, earth's rotation, and positions of the continents.
What controls surface currents?
Glocal winds: they occur when different winds cause currents to flow in different directions. The coriolis effect: The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation. Continental deflections: When surface currents meet continents, the currents deflect, or change direction.
What strongly affects the movement of air masses along the earth's surface?
The differences in air pressure and the Earth's rotation.
Surface currents are driven by what?
Surface currents are driven by the wind.
What are the three factors that influence the direction of winds and surface currents?
1) Uneven heating of the atmosphere 2) rotation of the Earth 3) continents
How the earth rotation affects the pattern of surface currents?
It causes the currents to move in curved paths instead of going in a straight line, which is known a the Coriolis effect.
What factors create surface currents?
Surface currents are created by air currents, earth's rotation, and positions of the continents.
What is the curving of winds and currents caused by earth rotation is called?
Curving of winds and currents caused by Earth's rotation is called surface currents.
What affects surface currents?
the coriolis effect.
Where are surface currents found?
A surface current is found at the surface of the ocean caused by wind patterns.
Where are currents found?
A surface current is found at the surface of the ocean caused by wind patterns.
What factors control most of ocean surface currents?
Air currents, earth's rotation and the location of the continents. <<< textbook source!
What three factors controls the path of surface currents?
wind,earth's rotation,weather
What causes ocean currents on the surface?
Surface currents in the ocean are the continuous movements of water found at the surface to just a few feet below, these currents are generated by the planet's prevailing winds-which are a direct result of the Sun's radiation and Earth's rotation.
How do surface currents help regulate the planets temperature?
Surface ocean currents carry heat from place to place in the Earth system. This affects regional climates.
