4. the digestive system is critical to maintaining a healthy body because

a. the digestive system is the primary way the body obtains oxygen.

b. the digestive system make food taste better.

c. the digestive system collects the nutrients needed by the body.

d..the body expels all of its waste using the digestive system.

How do temperature and salinity affect deepwater currents? they create changes in wind direction, moving denser water in the same direction as the wind and causing the deepwater circulation patterns found in the ocean. as temperatures and salinity levels of water increase, the water rises to the surface where it creates currents as it moves to colder regions. they create density differences that cause dense deepwater currents to flow toward the equator where they displace less dense, warmer water above them. they equalize the forces on undersea currents caused by the coriolis effect as they replace more dense water with less dense water.