Cold-water surface currents travel northward along the western coast of South America, while warm-water surface currents travel southward along the eastern coast. Why do these different currents travel in different directions on either side of the continent?

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this age may represent the age of the earth's accretion, of core formation, or of the material from which the earth formed. this dating is based on evidence from radiometric age-dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.

carbon atoms, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.