The World's Currents

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1. You just broke up with your girlfriend and have all the time in the world and want to take a trip. You get into a canoe without any paddles, and enough food and water, in Miami. You want to go to Seattle. How long does it take you to get there? 100 years 50 years 500 years 10 years

2. There are seven major currents in the world. The currents in the Northern Hemisphere rotate clockwise, while the ones in the Southern Hemisphere rotate counter-clockwise. What is the term used to explain this phenomenon? Carlissian Force Coriolis Effect El Nino Centripetal Force

3. What is the name of the current that flows by the Gulf of Alaska and brings cold water down the western coast of the USA? The California Current The North Equatorial Current The North Pacific Current The Alaska Current

4. What is the boundary layer between the oceans' surface layer and deep waters called? Salinocline The Water Cycle Thermocline Pycnocline

5. The oceans move how much water each day? 1.4 trillion cubic kilometers 13 trillion cubic kilometers 1.5 trillion cubic feet 2.3 trillion cubic meters

6. Which current is unusual in that it reverses its direction twice a year? The California Current North Atlantic Drift The Gulf Stream The Somali Current

7. What is used to trace the world's currents? Yellow dye #5 Tritium Suspended uranium Sonar

8. Ocean water and currents affect climate. True False

9. What causes waves? Wind Earth's rotation The moon's gravity Meteors

10. Continents cause currents to form almost enclosed circular patterns called what? Gyres Gyros Subsurface currents Whirlpools