Across
- 1. effect that makes currents curve out
- 5. what the ocean absorbs and transports (2 words)
- 8. what continents do to water that comes near
- 9. warm air _______
- 11. current affected by wind (2 words)
- 14. current moved by density differences(2 words)
- 16. direction currents deflect to in the southern hemisphere
- 17. # of years it would take a water molecule to flow on the entire current cycle (2 words)
- 19. the most common dissolved solid in the ocean is ______
- 20. where the air is warmer than any other place
Down
- 2. amount of dissolved salts in a liquid
- 3. depth of surface currents (3 words)
- 4. The _________current transports the most water of any current
- 6. the process of richer cold water replacing the warm surface water
- 7. amount of matter in a given space
- 10. Earth's shape
- 12. direction currents deflect to in the northern hemisphere
- 13. cold water is _______ than warm water
- 15. earths's ___________ contributes to the Coriolis effect
- 18. percent of energy moved by convection currents