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Western boundary currents are deflected by the western coastlines of the continents?
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Western boundary currents are deflected by the eastern coastlines of the continents?
True
What is physically pushing the continents further apart at a divergent boundary?
Convection Currents.
Can warm currents cause isotherms to be deflected towards the south pole?
no
What are the major differences between eastern boundary currents in the gyres and the western boundary currents in gyres?
Eastern boundary currents are relatively shallow, broad, and slow-flowing. Western boundary currents are warm, deep, narrow, and fast-flowing currents that form on the west side of ocean basins due to western intensification.
What are the major differences between eastern boundary currents in gyres and the western boundary currents in gyres?
Eastern boundary currents are relatively shallow, broad, and slow-flowing. Western boundary currents are warm, deep, narrow, and fast-flowing currents that form on the west side of ocean basins due to western intensification.
What are the major differences between eastern boundary currents in gyres and western boundary currents in gyres?
Eastern boundary currents are relatively shallow, broad, and slow-flowing. Western boundary currents are warm, deep, narrow, and fast-flowing currents that form on the west side of ocean basins due to western intensification.
Do currents on the western boundary of a gyre tend to be cold deep and fast?
A gyre is a current driven by the wind. The western boundary currents tend to be warm in temperature, and fast in speed. They are also deeper than the cold and slow eastern boundary currents.
If there were no land on Earth's surface what would the pattern of surface currents look like?
Most of the ocean currents are affected by global winds and the Coriolis effect, which states that the apparent curving of the path from an otherwise straight path is due to the Earth's rotation. The movement of the ocean currents are also affected by the continents: because of global winds and the Coriolis effect, most of the ocean currents want to move a different way than they actually are because they are deflected off of the continents. An example is the South Equatorial Current and the Benguela Current flowing in a circular motion in between the east coast of South America and the West Coast of Africa. If these continents ceased to exist, the directions of the currents would change, based on the global winds in that area and the Coriolis Effect.
How do continents affect surface currents?
jj
How did continents move?
convection currents in the eath's mantle
How continents moved?
convection currents in the eath's mantle
What would happen to mantle convection currents beneath a continental-continental convergent boundary?
The mantle convection currents beneath a continental convergent boundary will heat up and rise. They are heading toward each other, therefore, causing the two continents to collide.
