Vocabulary
Waves
Tsunami
Tides
Miscellaneous
100
A synonym for produced.
What is generated?
100
Waves are formed from this natural effect.
What is wind
100
The Japanese word for sea wave.
What is a tsunami?
100
It is caused by the gravitation pull of the moon.
What is a tide?
100
Seymour Simon
Who is the author of Oceans?
200
This force causes tides.
What is gravitational?
200
The distance a wave travels.
What is the fetch?
200
A tsunami is generated by these two natural disasters.
What is an earthquake or volcanic explosion?
200
Every twenty-four hours and fifty minutes.
How often do places on the coast have two high tides and two low tides.
200
Expository Nonfiction
What is the genre of Oceans?
300
Small fish and shells can be collected in this part of water.
What is the shallow part?
300
Waves that are long and smooth.
What is a swell?
300
This is how fast a tsunami can move through the ocean.
What is 5 hundred mph or as fast as a jet plane?
300
This island often has small tides compared to the lands around the edges of an ocean.
What is Hawaii?
300
This presents and explains information or ideas.
What is Expository Nonfiction?
400
lump, bump, swelling.
What is bulge?
400
The high spot of a wave is called the _______.
What is the crest?
400
Only two or three feet high.
What is how high a tsunami is in the open ocean?
400
When the sun and moon pull at right angles to each other twice a month we get the smallest tides.
What are neap tides?
400
The author wrote this story to explain how oceans work.
What is the main idea of Oceans?
500
I lent my books to my best friend. Find the hidden vocabulary word.
What is Inlet?
500
Only ___________ of the waves move forward.
What is energy?
500
Oahu, Hawaii was hit by a tsunami that was generated by an earthquake 2,500 miles away in this U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
500
When the sun and moon are lined up with the earth, their gravitational pulls combine and produce the biggest tides.
What is a spring tide?
500
70 percent of the Earth is cover by this.
What is oceans?
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