Ocean Currents

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Across
  1. 3. - Relating to the whole world.
  2. 5. Global air circulation patterns within the atmosphere held to Earth by gravity and warmed as heat radiates from Earth.
  3. 6. - Saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water
  4. 7. - The path of ocean water; Surface currents result from steady winds over the ocean surface.
  5. 10. - The degree of hotness or coldness of an object
  6. 11. - The spinning of Earth on its axis that causes day and night to occur.
Down
  1. 1. - The turn of moving air, as seen by an observer on Earth, as a result of Earth’s rotation
  2. 2. - Circular movement of fluids caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluid and the falling of cooler, denser fluid.
  3. 4. - The amount of matter in a given space or volume
  4. 8. - Average weather patterns from a particular region.
  5. 9. - Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler denser fluids.