changing in heat in the ocean colder sinks warmer floats
Two places on Earth where convention currents are prominent are the North Atlantic Ocean, where warm water flows northward and cold water flows southward, and the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, where the movement of magma beneath the Earth's crust drives tectonic plate motion.
The rotation of the Earth causes the Coriolis effect, which deflects ocean currents to the right in the Northern Hemisphere. This results in ocean currents flowing clockwise in the northern part of the ocean basins. The Coriolis effect influences the direction and shape of major ocean currents like the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift.
Cold ocean currents sink under warm ocean currents to form deep ocean currents.
The Coriolis effect shifts surface currents by angles of about 45 degrees. In the Northern Hemisphere, ocean currents are deflected to the right, in a clockwise motion. In the Southern Hemisphere, ocean currents are pushed to the left, in a counterclockwise motion.
Cold currents remove thermal energy from the air above and warm currents warm the air above Apex
Ocean currents is what forms surface currents. This starts deep in the ocean.
standard 6.5.2 Recognize and describe that the currents in the air and ocean distribute heat energy
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advantage of ocean currents
yes ocean currents are predictable
Ocean currents describe itself, a warm ocean current is warm water that has a path anything that gets in way of the path will be taken by the current same for cold water also a new tranport for the water to travel to ocean to ocean
The three types of ocean currents are surface currents, deep currents, and tidal currents. Surface currents are driven by winds, deep currents are driven by density and temperature differences, and tidal currents are driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.