Defintions
a rapid pattern of motion
What is a vibration?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Highest point in the wave
What is a crest?
caused by gravitational pull of moon
What is a tide?
vibration that moves energy from place to place
What is a wave?
The ripples that spread out in a pattern.
What is a circular wave?
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Southern
Lowest point in the wave.
What is a trough?
Caused by wind blowing across the ocean
What is a surface wave?
matter that a wave travels through
What is a medium?
Waves that look like hills and valleys, moving up and down.
What is a transverse wave?
Percentage of Earth covered by water.
What is over 70%?
Vibration that pushes together some of the matter.
What is compression?
Caused by wind patterns and the differences in water primarily due to the temperature differences.
What are the currents?
measurement of a wave
What is amplitude?
Waves that move back and forth.
What is a longitudinal wave?
properties of the ocean water
What is salinity, density, temperature, and current?
Part of the wave that is spread apart.
What is rarefaction?
Looks like the continuous movement in a specific direction.
What is a current?
number of waves that pass a certain point in one second
What is frequency?
Objects move in this way in the ocean.
What is up and down?
or What is a circular motion?
deepest point in the Pacific Ocean
What is the Mariana Trench?
What is how to determine how fast the energy is moving?
What is the Coriolis effect?