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Are ocean currents similar to wind currents?
Yes.
What two factors about wind are meteorologists interested in?
Wind and ocean currents
Is it true that wind are examples of convection currents?
Not conduction, but convection currents, are what drive winds and many ocean currents.
Do ocean waters and winds help to distribute the suns heat?
Wind and ocean currents are both produced by the Earth's unequal heating. This leads to the conclusion that the Sun is the main component in wind currents and ocean currents, because the Sun is what heats the Earth.
Why so so many climates exist in North and South America?
Because of the vast types of terrains like the wind and ocean currents,
Are ocean currents similar to wind currents?
Yes.
What are causes of the ocean currents?
The two causes of ocean currents are wind and the rotation of the earth(etc) The wind blows which makes the currents in the water and the rotation of the earth(gravity) makes currents in the ocean currents. Luaye Sharawy
What drives ocean currents?
wind
What type of current is caused by wind on the oceans surface?
Surface ocean currents are caused by winds. As wind blows across the surface, the wind pulls the water and causes waves.
What are ocean currents defined by?
speed and wind
Why did the ocean-going sailboats depend on ocean currents?
currents provide movement in times of little to no wind
What two factors about wind are meteorologists interested in?
Wind and ocean currents
What primarily drives the surface ocean currents?
The driving force behind surface currents is the wind. The wind happens naturally due to the constant rotating of the Earth.
What is a large wind driven surface currents that create circular movements in the ocean?
What is a large wind driven surface currents that create circular movements in the ocean?
What force between the ocean the wind causes surface currents?
Ocean currents are dure to a cobination of wind, the Corilis effect, and temperature differences.
Is it true that wind are examples of convection currents?
Not conduction, but convection currents, are what drive winds and many ocean currents.
What are some ways that ocean currents and wind are similar?
They are similar because if you think about it carefully, the ocean currents are caused by the air currents and the air currents are caused by the ocean currents, so, it is all a scientific cycle.
