Waves
A disturbance seen on the surface of water usually caused by wind.
What is a wave?
The rise and fall of level of water.
What is a tide?
This force causes the surface currents on the ocean.
What is wind?
The amount of salt dissolved into a liquid
What is salinity?
The area between the continental shelf and the continental rise; covered with sand, mud, and rocks
What is the continental slope?
Waves carry this but not water across the oceans.
What is energy?
High and low tide occur ________ number of times in one day.
What happens two times a day?
Flowing streams of water that move continually through the ocean in a specific direction are called this.
What is a current?
This is what happens to temperature as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is decrease?
A deep narrow valley where two plates collide; considered the deepest part of the ocean.
What is a trench?
This is a warm river of water in the Atlantic Ocean moving north along the East Coast of the United States all the way ro Europe.
What is the Gulf stream?
Tides are caused by the gravity from ________
What is the Moon?
This is a change in the weather pattern over the Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
This is what happens to water pressure as you go deeper into the ocean.
What is increase?
This is the wide flat area that extends out from the bottom of the continental slope.
What is the abyssal plain?
The mound of water that pushes onto a shore in a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
When high tides are high and low tides are low.
What is spring tide?
This is a type of current that carries swimmers away from the place where they eneterd the water.
What is a longshore current?
This adds to the increase in the salinity of ocean water.
What is evaporation?
Long underwater mountain chains that run along the ocean floor; formed from volcanic activity
What are mid - oceanic ridges?
The great energy of an earthquake or volcanic eruption can produce a wave called this
What is a tsunami?
During Neap tide, the Sun, the Earth and the Moon form this angle.
What is right angle?
Currents move sand by ____________ and change the shape of the beach by _____________.
What are erosion and deposition?
A ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral. (An example is Bora Bora)
What is an atoll?
hese are large volcanoes/ mountains rising out of the sea floor plains.
What is a seamount?