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17 Cards in this Set
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Wind
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Movement of air from high pressure to low pressure.
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Prevailing Wind
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Wind that blows in the same direction.
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Trade Winds
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Steady winds that blow across the equator.
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Westerly Winds
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Winds that flow from west to east.
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Polar Easterly Winds
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Dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from high pressure to low pressure areas at the north and south poles.
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Coriolis Effect
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Earths rotation that causes the deflect of moving objects toward the right of the northern hemisphere and left of the southern hemisphere
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Jet Stream
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a high altitude air current, forms a narrow band of very strong westerly winds flowing above the middle latitudes.
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Density
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Ratio between mass and volume of a substance.
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Surface Currents
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An ocean current that gently flows in the upper 1000 meters in the ocean and is driven by wind.
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Density Currents
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aka:deep ocean currents a subsurface current that is heavier of more dense then the surrounding water.
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Salinity
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Measure of dissolved salt in the water.
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Gulf Stream
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A narrow intense stream of warm water.
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Thermohaline
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The layers in the oceans driven by temperature and salt.
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Up welling
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The vertical movement of cold, deep ocean water to the surface.
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Global Conveyor Belt
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Global circulation of ocean currents.
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Clockwise
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The spinning of something to the right like a clock.
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Counter Clockwise
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The spinning of something to the left.
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