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Map of Ocean Currents

Using colored pencils, label and diagram by means of arrows, label the currents listed below. Make a key to denote the color used for the warm and cold currents.

North Atlantic region 1. - warm 2. North Atlantic Drift- warm 3. - cold 4. Canaries Current- cold 5. North Atlantic Equatorial Current- warm (found along equator) 6. Atlantic Equatorial Counter Current- warm (found along equator)

South Atlantic region 7. - cold 8. South Atlantic Equatorial Current- Warm (found along equator) 9. - warm 10. - cold

North Pacific region 11. Kuroshio (Japan) Current- warm 12. North Pacific Drift- warm 13. Oyashio (Kamchatka) Current- cold 14. - cold 15. North Pacific Equatorial Current- warm (found along equator) 16. Pacific Equatorial Counter Current- warm (found along equator)

South Pacific region 17. Peru Current- cold 18. South Pacific Equatorial Current- warm (found along equator) 19. –warm

Indian region 20. - cold 21. South Indian Equatorial Current- warm (found along equator) 22. - warm 23. Indian Equatorial Counter Current- warm

Trace the following routes: 1. If you were to send a message in a bottle from Brazil, what is the path it would need to take to reach its destination in East Greenland?

2. What path will be taken from California to India?

3. What path will be taken from Alaska to S. Africa?

4. What path will be taken from Japan to Jamaica?

5. What path will be taken Mexico to Peru?

6. What path will be taken from Canada to Antarctica?

7. What path will be taken from Australia to Japan?