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Ocean Currents Map

Why are Ocean Currents Important?

Types of Ocean Currents

So, what causes the ocean’s currents? Ocean currents are driven by tides, winds, or changes in the water’s density.
There are two different types of ocean currents: surface currents and deep ocean currents. Together they create a complex system that affects our weather, marine travel, and oceanic ecosystems.

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Surface Currents
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Deep Ocean Currents
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Tidal Currents

Ocean Currents of The World

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Garbage patch Gyre known as a vortex of moving water

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This collection of litter (composed mostly of tiny pieces of plastic) is located in the North Pacific. The trash is collecting in the calm center of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. A gyre is a large system of swirling ocean currents. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is made of four separate currents: the California current, the North Equatorial current, the Kuroshio current, and the North Pacific current. These four currents are moving large amounts of trash towards the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — helping it grow ever larger.

To Understand Ocean Currents, it's best to start with understanding the waves. and how it plays a large role in creating energy.

The five major oceans wide gyres are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic North Pacific South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Ocean gyres and world map pacific of plastic pollution. The currents we see at the beach are called coastal currents that can affect land and wave formations. Currents travel around 5.6 miles per hour in warmer waters of the northern hemisphere and in the North Pacific moves much slower in cold water at 0.03 to 0.06 miles per hour.

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Currents & Marine Organisms

Ocean currents exist both on and below the surface. Some currents are local to specific areas, while others are global. And they move a lot of water. The largest current in the world, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, is estimated to be 100 times larger than all the water flowing in all the world’s rivers! All of this moving water helps more stationary species get the food and nutrients they need. Instead of going looking for food, these creatures wait for the currents to bring a fresh supply to them. Currents also play a major role in reproduction. The currents spread larvae and other reproductive cells. Without currents many of the ocean’s ecosystems would collapse.

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What Can You Do?

Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a challenge. It is not close to any coastline, which means no one country or organization has stepped up to take responsibility for its cleanup. However, many ocean conservation organizations, such as Ocean Blue Project, one of the best Ocean cleanup organizations removing 1 million pounds of plastic by 2025. Help save our blue economy by making a one time donation to help remove plastic pollution from a beach near you.  

The best way to support this effort — reduce your use of single-use plastics. If less plastic is being used, then less of it will end up in our oceans.

What are the Five Oceans of the World?

"The Five bodies of water and the global ocean produces more then half oxygen humans breath."

How do Ocean Currents affect Climate

Ocean currents move warm and cold water, to polar regions and tropical regions influencing both weather and climate and changing the regions temperatures. Learn more about Ocean Blue nonprofit working to remove plastic from our Ocean. 

Why Is The Ocean Blue

Clean water is blue because water absorbs and reflects the blue sky as light bounces red light, red orange yellow, light spectrum of reflections of light as a significant to lowering sediments as for taking care of our wild rivers protective sediments runoff destroying our ocean.

Clean water is blue because water absorbs and reflects the blue sky as light bounces red light, red orange yellow, light spectrum of reflections of light as a significant to lowering sediments as for taking care of our wild rivers protective sediments runoff destroying our ocean. Ocean Blue feels beach cleanups conjointly facilitate the long wavelength of the blue color by lowering floating ocean plastics have to be compelled to facilitate keep our ocean blue by protecting clean water. because the ocean absorbs the red yellowness wavelength of light as the aspect of the white lightweight you’ll usually see a glimpse of reminder red etc once viewing the blue ocean reflections we tend to see most frequently. The blue color Lower floating sediments that may lower the short wavelengths of lightweight of sunshine spectrum that permits our ocean blue wavelengths reflections of sunshine to be the blue light color. Therefore removing plastic floating in our ocean helps permit blue ocean water and our water molecules of safe of blue water.

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