Ocean Currents and Wind
Sources:
Heat Transfer. 2007 University of Arizona. 10/01/2012 <
http://blowers.chee.arizona.edu/cooking/heat/>.
Wind Driven Surface Currents. 2012 NASA. 10/01/2012
<http://oceanmotion.org/html/background/equatorial-currents.htm>.
Ocean Currents and Climate. 2009 10/01/2012
<http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html>.
Heat Transfer
1. What is Earth’s source of thermal energy?
Earth's primary source of energy is called insolation and comes from the sun, thermal energy can also come from underground magma or lava, or even friction.
2. List the three ways heat
is transferred from one object to another. Explain each.
1. Conduction- the heat that can be found in gasses, solids, and liquids in direct contact
2. Convection- the heat transfer when something or someone is making a fluid movement.
3. Radiation- the heat that travels through empty space in electromagnetic energy.
Which method of heat transfer occurs when the Sun’s energy is passed to the Earth?
Radiation
Formation of Wind
1. What type of energy transfer occurs to produce sea breezes?
Convection
2. How are winds formed?
When the sun heats the earth differently, air pressure begins to rise and fall creating wind.
3. Where does the energy for the wind come from?
The sun
4. What are the winds that form along the equator?
Trade winds
Ocean Currents
1. What powers the ocean currents?
The ocean currents are caused mostly by wind, solar heating, gravity, coriolis force, and surface circulation.
2. What is the importance of ocean currents?
The ocean currents impact the weather because it changes the moisture and transfer of energy.
3. How are ocean currents formed?
Ocean currents are formed usually when wind blows over the top of the water or if gravity is pulling the water a certain way.
Heat Transfer. 2007 University of Arizona. 10/01/2012 <
http://blowers.chee.arizona.edu/cooking/heat/>.
Wind Driven Surface Currents. 2012 NASA. 10/01/2012
<http://oceanmotion.org/html/background/equatorial-currents.htm>.
Ocean Currents and Climate. 2009 10/01/2012
<http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html>.
Heat Transfer
1. What is Earth’s source of thermal energy?
Earth's primary source of energy is called insolation and comes from the sun, thermal energy can also come from underground magma or lava, or even friction.
2. List the three ways heat
is transferred from one object to another. Explain each.
1. Conduction- the heat that can be found in gasses, solids, and liquids in direct contact
2. Convection- the heat transfer when something or someone is making a fluid movement.
3. Radiation- the heat that travels through empty space in electromagnetic energy.
Which method of heat transfer occurs when the Sun’s energy is passed to the Earth?
Radiation
Formation of Wind
1. What type of energy transfer occurs to produce sea breezes?
Convection
2. How are winds formed?
When the sun heats the earth differently, air pressure begins to rise and fall creating wind.
3. Where does the energy for the wind come from?
The sun
4. What are the winds that form along the equator?
Trade winds
Ocean Currents
1. What powers the ocean currents?
The ocean currents are caused mostly by wind, solar heating, gravity, coriolis force, and surface circulation.
2. What is the importance of ocean currents?
The ocean currents impact the weather because it changes the moisture and transfer of energy.
3. How are ocean currents formed?
Ocean currents are formed usually when wind blows over the top of the water or if gravity is pulling the water a certain way.