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
