Oceanography unit 3

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a system of four currents completing a flow circuit around the periphery of an ocean basin is collectively called

a gyre

Englands weather is ____ than would be expected at that latitude because of the influence of surface currents

warmer and wetter

Generally the fastest and deepest ocean currents are

western boundary currents

all of the following statements are true about the Ekman spiral except

Ekman spiral is not influenced by Coriolis

currents tend to move in large_____ patterns in the northern hemisphere

clockwise

San Francisco's characteristic cold and froggy weather is caused by a

cold eastern boundary current


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