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| Hey honey, what did you learn at school today? | |
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| I learned all about currents! A surface currents is a flow of seawater in the surface of the ocean set in motion by wind through a larger area of relatively stationary water. | |
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| That's cool! When I learned about currents, I learned about the Coriolis Effect. That's when an object is moving in a straight but its path gets deflected. | |
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| Yeah! We learned about that. The Ekman Spiral that is the continual deflection of a current direction when it gets deeper due to friction and the Coriolis Effect. | |
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| Did they also tell you that ocean currents can effect the weather by carrying cold or warm water far away from its source? | |
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| They did! Did you also know that seawater can move between the surface and deep regions of the ocean? That is because of upwellings and downwellings | |
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