Ocean winds and currents

Question 1

What are the two types of currents

Answer 1

Wind driven and thermohaline

Question 2

What are the primary generating forces for currents

Answer 2

Wind
Differences in water density caused by variation in heat and salinity

Question 3

What are the two equatorial currents in the atlantic

Answer 3

North Equatorial
South Equatorial

Question 4

What current compliments the equatorial current

Answer 4

North Equatorial Countercurrent

Question 5

Where does the Loop Current Form

Answer 5

Yucatan peninsala in the Gulf of mexico

Question 6

How long is the loop currents variable period

Answer 6

13 months

Question 7

What is the most remarkable american current

Answer 7

Gulf stream

Question 8

What currents augments the gulf stream

Answer 8

Antilles Current

Question 9

What does the gulf stream turn into

Answer 9

North atlantic current

Question 10

What direction do north atlantic currents flow and what does this action create

Answer 10

clockwise
it creates the Sargasso Sea

Question 11

Item of note about Pacific currents

Answer 11

Major currents follow the same general patter as those in Atlantic

Question 12

What principle factor effects the indian ocean currents

Answer 12

Monsoons

Question 13

How are currents measured

Answer 13

Autonomous free drifting buoys
Acoustic doppler current profilers
high frequency radar systems

Question 14

What is the strongest eddie

Answer 14

mesoscale

Question 15

Two major type of ocean currents

Answer 15

Stream
Drift

Question 16

Which way does the southern hemisphere currents flow
Which way does the northern hemisphere currents flow

Answer 16

Counterclockwise, Clockwise

Question 17

Which current is off the coast of japan

Answer 17

Kuroshio current

Question 18

What current runs north on the southwestern shore of Africa

Answer 18

Benguela

Question 19

What current runs along the south eastern shore of Africa

Answer 19

Agulhas current
One of the swiftest

Question 20

What currents run on either side of japan

Answer 20

Tsushima west side by koria
Kuroshio east side black stream

Question 21

What 2 currents run on the west side of south america

Answer 21

Peru current
Mentor current

Question 22

What current merges with the gulf stream and turns into the north Atlantic current

Answer 22

Labrador current

Question 23

What two current primarily operate on the western and northern shores of africa

Answer 23

Guinea and canary currents

Question 24

How do you get actual current

Answer 24

from a fix to a fix