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Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents. Eric Angat Teacher. Copy and Answer the following Questions. Why do we need to study ocean currents? What is a bathysphere? What is Discodermolide ?. Ocean Currents. To predict weather more efficiently. To predict the flow of pollutants.

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Ocean Currents

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  1. Ocean Currents Eric Angat Teacher

  2. Copy and Answer the following Questions. • Why do we need to study ocean currents? • What is a bathysphere? • What is Discodermolide?

  3. Ocean Currents

  4. To predict weather • more efficiently. • To predict the flow • of pollutants.

  5. A device used to observe and study the deeps of the oceans.

  6. Discodermolide a substance isolated from the Bahamian deep-sea sponge is a promising marine-derived candidate for treating certain cancers.

  7. 4. Describe the direction of the ocean current in the a. North Pacific Ocean b. South Pacific Ocean 5. Describe the direction of the ocean current in a. North Atlantic Ocean b. South Atlantic Ocean

  8. 6. What kind of wind is moving towards the equator? 7. What kind of wind is moving away from the equator? 8. What is the Coriolis Effect?

  9. Global Wind Current ttps://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1905/es1905page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

  10. 9. Describe the air masses in the United States Poles Equator

  11. 10. Describe the wind directions of the trade winds, prevailing westerlies, and polar easterlies. Trade wind 0-30 degrees Intertropical Convergence Zone or ITCZ Trade wind 0-30 degrees

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