fluid - a substance (such as a liquid or gas) tending to flow or conform to the outline of its container, density - a measurement that compares the amount of matter an object has to its volume, convection - the circular motion that happens when warmer fluids (which have faster moving molecules, making them less dense) rise, which the cooler more dense fluids sink, convection current - a heat-driven current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid that moves energy from one location to another, salinity - the amount of salt in water, concentration - the measure of how much of a given substance there is mixed with another substance, Coriolis Effect - how the objects moving on the surface of the Earth appear to follow a curved path due to Earth's rotation,

Convection Currents Vocabulary

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