🔍 Key Concepts

• Western Boundary Currents in the South Atlantic Ocean • General circulation around the South Atlantic subtropical gyre • How currents flow along the east coasts of continents in each hemisphere

💭 Think About

• Is the Brazil Current located on the east or west side of South America, and how does that affect its direction? • In the Southern Hemisphere, do warm boundary currents on the western side of ocean basins tend to flow toward the equator or toward the pole? • Visualize or sketch the South Atlantic Ocean and trace how water would move around a clockwise subtropical gyre.

✅ Before You Answer

• Confirm on a mental globe where Brazil sits relative to the equator and South Atlantic basin • Recall that warm currents on the western side of ocean basins mirror the Gulf Stream pattern but in the opposite hemisphere • Eliminate options that would require the current to flow toward land instead of along the coast of Brazil