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