Question

What is a gyre? Where would you find one?

Answer 1

A gyre is a large system of rotating ocean currents. There are five major gyres: the North and South Pacific Subtropical Gyres, the North and South Atlantic Subtropical Gyres, and the Indian Ocean Subtropical Gyre.

Answer 2

Answer:

Ocean gyres are large system of circular ocean currents formed by global wind patterns and forces created by Earth's rotation. The five major circulation patterns formed by the currents on this map are the world's five major ocean gyres: North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian, North Pacific, and South Pacific.