The Ocean Floor
Waves
Ocean Shore
Tides
Currents and Climate
100
The force that creates underwater landslides
What is gravity?
100
The main force that causes waves.
What is wind?
100
The most common feature along shorelines.
What are caves and arches?
100
The main force that causes tides.
What is the moon?
100
How surface winds affect the ocean.
What is forming ocean currents?
200
The shape a continental shelf resembles
What is a rectangle?
200
A series of waves
What is a swell?
200
What beaches are formed from.
What is sediment pile up?
200
The other source that produces gravity for tides other than the moon.
What is the sun?
200
The heat capacity that water has.
What is high heat capacity
300
The direction (up or down) that a continental slope goes the farther it gets from the shore.
What is down?
300
A heavy sea wave that breaks into white foam on the shore.
What is a breaker?
300
Water wearing away at a rock.
What is erosion?
300
The name used to describe high tide.
What is spring tide?
300
How a cold temperature affects the temperature of coastal regions
What is decreasing temperature?
400
A wide, open ocean floor
What is an abyssal plain
400
The cause of tsunamis
What is an underwater earthquake?
400
How sea caves are formed.
What is erosion?
400
The type of tide formed when the tide is low.
What is a neap tide?
400
How a warm ocean current affect the temperature of coastal regions.
What is increasing temperature?
500
Three major features that can be found in the ocean landscape.
What is mountain ranges, steep valleys, vast plains?
500
A warm ocean current affect the temperature of coastal regions
What is the scientific definition of a wave?
500
The amount of creatures in the ocean.
What is a TRICK QUESTION!
500
The sun, the earth, and the moon are aligned.
What is the creating factor(s) of a maximum tide?
500
The cause of boats drifting in a certain direction while turned off.
What is ocean currents?
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