ocean+currents

Include: two types of ocean currents how people use currents how currents affect weather names of major currents map of the major currents cause of currents speed of currents rotation in the North and South Hemisphere

definitions: current Coriolis effect trade winds westerlies Gulf Stream monsoon El Nino turbidity current

Questions to research:

What are the two main types of ocean currents?

What are ocean currents and what causes them?

What are gyres?

What is the coriolis affect?

Why are currents important?

What are trade winds and westerlies?

Can ocean currents affect climate?

Where can ocean currents be used?

What makes oceans have currents?

what is the El Nino?

What are surface and deep ocean currents?

What is pycnocline?

Where are ocean currents found?

Links: [] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/motion/currents1.htm www.windows2universe.org/bio/jennifer.html http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ocean_planet/activities/tslsiacl.pdf

http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html

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