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Highways of the Sea Lab Report
Instructions: In the Highways of the Sea Lab, you will chart the traveling shoes and predict how ocean
currents move. Record your findings below. You will submit your completed lab report.
(30 points possible)
Name and Title
: Gracielin Hickox, Mrs Tyson, 01/31/24
Objective(s)
:
To show ocean currents and how they move.
Hypothesis
:
(2 points)
If we figure out how ocean currents travel, we can figure out where the shoes will land and on
what day.
Procedure
:
(8 points)
On the map below, locate and mark the locations of shoes provided in the data table. You may
print your map and mark it by hand or copy it to a program to edit. Label each data point in
chronological order from 1 to 11 on the map, and connect the data points with arrows.
Data
:
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Conclusion
:
(20 points)
1.
Define the following terms:
(2 points)
a.
Current:
a body of water or air moving in a
definite
direction, especially through a
surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
b.
Gyre:
large system of rotating ocean currents.
2.
Using the map and the data points, what can you conclude about the general pathway
the shoes took?
(2 points)
The shoes ended up in the northern pacific ocean.
3.
Compare the pathway of the shoes to the map showing the major surface currents in the
Pacific. Which current(s) did the shoes most likely encounter? Add these to your map
above.
(2 points)
North Pacific, Alaska, California currents.
4.
Which data point is an outlier? What may have happened to this batch of shoes?
(2
points)
Point 10 is the outlier, they were probably transported in the North.
5.
How fast did the shoes travel?
(4 points)
a.
From where the shoes spilled (48°N, 161°W) to where they first made landfall
(49°N, 126°W), how many kilometers did they travel? How many days did they
take to travel that distance? (You can use November 30 as the date found). What
was their rate of travel in kilometers per hour? 23 days
b.
From where the shoes spilled (48°N, 161°W) to where they were found in 1996
(54°N, 133°W), how many kilometers did they travel? How many days did they
take to travel that distance (use April 30 as the date found)? What was their rate
of travel in kilometers per hour? 23/3.7
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6.
The shoes traveled faster than the rubber ducks and bath toys. Propose a hypothesis to
explain the why the shoes traveled faster, and develop a plan to test your prediction.
(2
points) They will travel at a lower point and faster.
7.
The shoes floated low in the water, while the ducks floated high in the water. How could
this fact have changed the course and speed of both the shoes and the ducks?
(2 points)
It could change the speed of both, waves take the path of currents.
8.
Give a possible explanation why some shoes drifted northward along the coast while
others drifted southward.
(2 points)
The ocean currents can easily change direction and change object direction.
9.
Your friend has invited you onto her family’s boat for a day of fishing. After lunch on the
boat, your friend wants to throw a bag of trash overboard. After researching the impact
currents have on objects, explain what you would do in this situation and why.
(2 points)
Throwing trash overboard can ruin marine life and ecosystems, it’ll also push the trash all over the ocean,
and will not decompose.
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