Ocean Currents and Climate

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Across
  1. 2. What kind of water rises?
  2. 5. One of two types of ocean currents; caused by differences in density
  3. 6. true or false: currents are caused by the moon
  4. 8. Does water move in deep ocean currents from high density to low density
  5. 11. This kind of heat transfer happens between the ocean water and the air right above the water
  6. 13. One thing that causes surface currents to move
  7. 15. The ocean current that brings warm water to the east coast of the United States
  8. 16. The Global ______________ Belt is a system of constantly moving ocean currents driven by salinity and temperature and salinity
  9. 18. The temperature of the water in the Gulf Stream
  10. 20. Continental Deflection causes water to do this
  11. 21. When glaciers melt, does the salinity around a glacier increase or decrease?
  12. 22. How much salt is in the water
  13. 23. When salt water has ________________ salinity, it sinks
Down
  1. 1. The effect caused by Earth's rotation on its axis
  2. 3. Cold currents generally come from where?
  3. 4. The sun heats up the surface of the water using this kind of heat transfer
  4. 7. One of two types of ocean currents; caused by energy from the sun
  5. 9. Warm currents generally come from where?
  6. 10. How energy moves (three words)
  7. 12. The temperature of the water in the California Current
  8. 14. How much matter is in a given space
  9. 16. The ___________________current is the process brings deep cold ocean currents up to the surface
  10. 17. true or false: Ocean currents impact an area's climate
  11. 19. What kind of water are glaciers made from?