Seawater and Ocean Circulation + Climate

What are the world’s oceans average salinity?

Which water layer has the highest concentration of salt?

Which of the following is NOT one of the five specially named latitudes

Light Intensity is the highest at...

Photic zone is the...

What is the average depth of the worlds oceans?

This decreases the salinity of Ocean water

What is an ocean current?

Downwelling is caused by cold, salty water sinking?

Put the layers of the ocean, in regards to light, in order from the shallowest to deepest.

Thermohaline deals with temperature and salinity

Western Boundary Currents

Which of the following is NOT one of the climate zones found on Earth

Salinity

Which water layer has the lowest concentration of salt?

Which of the zones is the benthic zone?

What is the Global Conveyor belt responsible for?

Seawater at the poles is saltier than seawater at the equator.

Deep ocean currents are caused by _____

The mechanism that drives both deep sea currents and local breezes is called...

Wind can cause ocean currents.

Cold / Salty water will sink below Warm / Fresh water.

Climates are the result of unequal heating and cooling of the earth

The Temperate Zone has cooler temperatures because...

What is upwelling?

As depth increases pressure and density decrease.

The Coriolis effect causes fluids, like the world's oceans and global winds, to appear to...