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Wind & Ocean Currents Homework PacketWorldwide Ocean Currents Conclusion Questions - use your map to answer!!

1. What causes ocean currents? (HINT: it blows)

2. What causes the currents to curve?

3. Do surface currents in the Northern hemisphere flow clockwise or counter clockwise?

4. What about in the Southern hemisphere?

5. Which major current affects the eastern coast of the U.S.?

6. Is it warm or cold?

7. Which direction does it flow?

8. What effect does it have on the climate on the east coast?

9. What effect would it have on the climate of the east coast it flowed in the opposite direction?

10. Which major current affects the SOUTHwest coast of the U.S.?

11. Is it warm or cold?

12. Which direction does it flow?

13. What effect does it have on the climate on the southwest coast?

14. Which major current affects the NORTHwest coast of the U.S.?

15. Is it warm or cold?

16. Which direction does it flow?

17. What effect does it have on the climate on the northwest coast?

18. New Foundland, Canada has a sub-arctic climate, and London, England has a mild climate.

How is this possible if these two places are located at the same latitude?

19. What effect does the Brazil Current have on the climate of Brazil?

20. What effect does the Peru Current have on the climate of Peru?

21. What effect does the Kuroshio Current have on the climate of Japan?

22. What other city on your map has a similar climate to Los Angeles, CA because of the ocean

currents that affect it?

23. Why is the climate in Charleston, SC so much warmer and more humid than the climate in Los

Angeles, CA?

24. Ben Franklin was the first man to map the Gulf Stream. How did this knowledge help him to get

the mail to Europe quickly? (Remember: Ships only had sails back then!)

25. According to your map, why did it take longer to mail back to the U.S. from Europe?

Picture yourself standing at the shore of each of the places listed in the chart. You throw a bottle witha message in it into the ocean. Where might the ocean's currents carry your message? (HINT: Wherewill it make landfall?) Use your ocean currents map as a reference.

MESSAGESTARTS HERE

Ex: Los Angeles, CA

MESSAGEENDS HERE

Tokyo, Japan

NAME OF OCEAN CURRENT(S)

California Current ÿ EquatorialKuroshio

26. Miami, FL

27. Casablanca,

Morocco

28. Buenos Aires,

Argentina

29. Santiago,Chile

30. Cape Town,South Africa

31. Perth,

Australia

32. Mogadishu,

Somalia

Bonus:

Sitka, Alaska

ENERGY FROM THE SUN

Use your notes and the word bank to jill in the blanks.

temperature electromagnetic waves

sinks current atmosphere

radiation convection

Sun campfire rises

33. The is the source of all energy in our atmosphere.

34. Energy reaches Earth in the form of radiant energy, or

35. This process is the transfer of energy by

36. You experience radiation when you sit by a

37. is the transfer of heat that occurs because of

differences in the air.

38. Because cold air has a higher density than warm air, cold air

and your skin becomes warm.

while the warmer air

39. This rise and fall of air sets up a circular movement called a convection

40. Convection currents and other processes that transfer energy help provide the

we live in.

For each diagram below, use the information in your notes on LOCAL WINDS, to identifywhich time of the day each local wind is occurring based on the flow of the convectioncurren t.

Land Breeze

Warm air

FIGURE 2 ÿ

Coot air

Sea Breeze

.ÿ., Warm airt

Coot air $!J¢"

41. Day or Night? 42. Day or Night?

Wind & Ocean Currents Vocabulary

Radiation

Convection

Current

Wind

GlobalWind

Local

Wind

Jet

Stream

CoriolisEffect

Ocean

SurfaceCurrent