This TED-Ed lesson featureshow ocean currents work. It starts with a story of how rubber ducks got swept away by ocean currents. Then, it gets into what influences ocean currents. For example, the wind, tides, water density, rotation, and even ocean floor topography influence currents in th...
major surface currents of the oceansMajor surface currents of the world's oceans. Subsurface currents also move vast amounts of water, but they are not known in such detail.(more) Maps of the general circulation at the sea surface were originally constructed from a vast amount of data obtaine...
D. New Guinea is on the north of it. 3. Why is the water at the poles less salty? A.Little of it turns into steam. B.There is abundant rainfall there. C.The ocean currents are slow there. D.Melting snow adds water to the ocean. 4. We can infer from the passage that___. A...
Using the example of the surface currents map 褋onstructed for the Northern Atlantic on the basis of data of modern observations by means of drifting buoys, it is shown that the previously published maps of ocean surface currents, based on ship drift data, have become outdated and require an...
Ocean currents refer to the mass flow of water driven by winds, transferring heat, influencing weather and climate, distributing nutrients, and dispersing marine organisms in the oceans. They are a form of kinetic energy that plays a crucial role in the Earth's climate system and have the pote...
Highly variable deep-sea currents over tidal and seasonal timescales Mooring observations suggest that deep-sea currents exhibit substantial variability over tidal and seasonal timescales, driving a complex pattern of sediment transport. Lewis P. Bailey ...
If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing (海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result,...
If you didn't retrieve the lost item immediately, it was likely well on its way to the other side of the world, carried away by ocean currents. When speaking of water, the word current refers to the motion of the water. Currents are found in rivers, ponds, marshes and even ...
managing a world-famous currents research organization . phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea (4) What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage? ___ . To call people's attention to ocean pollution. . To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean. . To explain a ...
Ocean, continuous body of salt water held in enormous basins on Earth’s surface. There is one ‘world ocean,’ but researchers often separate it into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic oceans. Covering nearly 71 percent of Earth’s surf