Winds and Waves
The distance of the crest of one wave to the crest of the next wave.
Wavelength
One way that coastal engineers can reduce wave erosion is to build these.
Groins
Ocean movement primarily produced by gravity.
Tides
High tide on a coast is caused when that location passes through the deepest point of this.
Tidal Bulge (-777) and (+777)
The most direct method to measure sea level in a coastal harbor.
Tide Gauge
The vertical distance between a wave’s crest and trough.
Wave Height
A mass of rock that has been cut off from the mainland by erosion.
Stack
Ocean movement that most affects ocean navigation.
Currents
The main reason why the Bay of Fundy has such unusual tides.
Shape / Topography (+1999)
As a wave approaches shore, its speed and wavelength have this same reaction.
Decrease
This feature of a surface wave is the distance that wind blows over the water’s surface in one direction.
Fetch
Coastal stacks are usually remnants of these structures.
Sea Arches
Ocean currents driven by global winds.
Surface Currents
The location of an ocean gyre rotating counterclockwise.
Southern Hemisphere (-1700)
The change in a wave‘s height as it nears the shore.
Increase
The characteristic of a wave that most directly corresponds with its speed.
Wave Period
THE ABSOLUTE GAMBLER
(pick a number 1-2000)
+ (whatever they said)
Subsurface currents that flow due to differences in salinity or temperature are types these currents.
Density Currents
These have the most effect on surface currents, and therefore have the least effect on subsurface currents.
Prevailing Winds (-500)
The strongest force acting on our tides.
The feature of water with the least amount of effects on a wave’s height.
Water Temperature
THE ABSOLUTE GAMBLER
(pick a number 1-2000)
- ( whatever they picked )
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the result of our own carelessness and a strong oceanic this.
Gyre
A combination of the Coriolis effect, current speed, and water depth that change the direction of a current.
Ekman Spiral (+988)
Compared to its surroundings, water with more oxygen but less nutrients likely went through this.
Downwelling