Vocabulary Unit 10 Oceanography
- wave - a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore
- currents - a body of water moving in a definite direction
- tides - the alternate rising and falling of the sea due to the attraction of the moon and sun
- energy - the ability to do work. Energy is how things change and move
- salinity – the measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water
- density – the relative heaviness of objects, measured in units of mass per units of volume
- down welling – the movement of water from the surface to greater depths
- upwelling – the vertical movement of deep water up to the surface
- Gulfstream –warm ocean current flowing from the Equator along the East Coast of America to England
- Coriolis Effect - the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.
- El Nino - Warm water flowing from the Southwest Pacific towards South America and then continental deflection forces the warm water to flow north along the coast of Mexico and the U.S.A. This warm water changes the climate of the western coast of South and North America
Vocabulary Unit 10 Oceanography
- wave - a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore
- currents - a body of water moving in a definite direction
- tides - the alternate rising and falling of the sea due to the attraction of the moon and sun
- energy - the ability to do work. Energy is how things change and move
- salinity – the measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water
- density – the relative heaviness of objects, measured in units of mass per units of volume
- down welling – the movement of water from the surface to greater depths
- upwelling – the vertical movement of deep water up to the surface
- Gulfstream –warm ocean current flowing from the Equator along the East Coast of America to England
- Coriolis Effect - the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.
- El Nino - Warm water flowing from the Southwest Pacific towards South America and then continental deflection forces the warm water to flow north along the coast of Mexico and the U.S.A. This warm water changes the climate of the western coast of South and North America