.What effect do the ocean currents have on the
climate of a place?
.What are the effects of tides?
.What is the time difference between two tides?
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Answer:
1 ..Ocean currents act much like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics. Thus, ocean currents regulate global climate, helping to counteract the uneven distribution of solar radiation reaching Earth's surface.
2.
One indirect but very powerful affect tides have on humans is in the behavior of sea life. Many different kinds of sea life, especially those that live on or near the shore, depend on the changing tide for survival.
3.Because the Earth rotates through two tidal “bulges” every lunar day, coastal areas experience two high and two low tides every 24 hours and 50 minutes. High tides occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. It takes six hours and 12.5 minutes for the water at the shore to go from high to low, or from low to high.
Answer :-
•The ocean plays an important role in shaping our climate and weather patterns. Warm ocean waters provide the energy to fuel storm systems that provide fresh water vital to all living things.
• Tides affect coastal regions in different ways. High tides push large amounts of water far up onto beaches and leave the sand and sediment mixed with the water behind when the tide goes out.
• The time difference between the two tidal bulges is of 12 hours and 25 minutes. It is called as tidal clock.