2. This is a Sea Surface Temperature map. As you can see the yellow and orange areas is where the Equator is. Near the purples and blues that would be the North and South Poles where water that is cold appears hence blue and purple.

3.  Sea Surface temperatures are important of knowing because, it effects the earths atmosphere. It helps determine sea fogs and breezes.

4. Name of National Marine Sanctuary LatitudeLongitudeJanuary Average SST April Average SST August Average SST Fagatele Bay14.332189.91128 C 26 C Florida Keys25.046279.3722 C24 C30 C Cordell Bank37.807236.83614 C12 C16 C The Monitor34.925284.58418 C22 C28 C Olympic Coast 47.96235.1910 C12 C16 C Stellwagen Bank 41.923289.9358 C4 C18C Channel Islands 33.965239.99212 C 16 C Hawaiian Islands 21.067202.67222 C24 C26 C

5.  Fagatele Bay had the warmest because it was one of the ones closest to the Equator.  Stellwagen Bank had the coldest temperatures because the Labrador current was pushing cold water toward it.  The Hawaiian Island and Fagatele Bay are similar in temperatures because they are the ones near the Equator causing warmer air.

6. Sea Surface Temperatures in the North pole Sea Ice

7. Wind currents Sea currents

8. Sea Surface Temperatures Sea Surface Height

9. The ocean on the west coast is 13C and the ocean on the east coast is 20C. The reason they are different temperatures is because the east coast has different a sea current than the west coast. On the current on the east coast brings water up from the equator while the current on the west brings water down from the north.

10. A water current moving in a direction that is different from that of the main current. Eddies generally involve circular motion; unstable patterns of eddies are also called turbulence. Eddies off the coast of New Jersey.

13. Gyre: A spiral current along the ocean driven by the global wind system and configured by the continents surrounding the three major oceans(Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian).

14. Our oceans are made up of currents that circulate water around the world. Large systems of these currents along with wind and the earth’s rotation, create gyres. Gyre’s are massive, slow rotating whirlpools in which plastic trash can accumulate. Plastic trash in the gyre will remain for decades or longer, being pushed, spiraling towards the center. Most of the research on plastic trash circulating in oceanic gyres has focused on the North Pacific, but there are 5 major gyres worldwide, with several smaller gyres in Alaska and Antarctica.