Ocean Currents Ryker Rowett RMMS
Across
- 5. 1 of the 2 Regions
- 7. The oceans contain streamlike movements of water (2 words)
- 8. Takes more than 1,000 years to return to its starting point
- 10. Movement of ocean water far below the surface (2 words)
- 14. winds that occur in belts that go all around the planet (2 words)
- 15. The dissolved salt content of a body of water
- 17. Chemical element that starts with H
- 19. Movement of water that results from density differences (2 words)
- 20. the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator
Down
- 1. Ocean currents that occur at or near the surface of the ocean caused by wind (2 words)
- 2. When surface currents meet continents the currents are deflected and change direction (2 words)
- 3. A warm ocean current of the northern Atlantic Ocean off eastern North America (2 words)
- 4. the star around which the earth orbits
- 6. The action of rotating around an axis or center
- 9. The capacity or power to do work
- 11. The warm surface water is replaced by cold nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean
- 12. The perceptible natural movement of the air especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction
- 13. The deflection of moving objects from a straight path due to earths rotation (2 words)
- 16. Chemical element that starts with O
- 18. The number of things which could be people animals plants or objects in a certain area