vocabulary A
Vocabulary B
Ocean Currents
Ocean Waves
Ocean Trivia
100
Warm Atlantic current flowing north along the eastern coast of the U.S.
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
Caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor, a volcanic eruption, or an underwater landslide.
What is a tsunami?
100
A vast area of clam, warm water in the North Atlantic.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
100
Larger waves grow larger
What is because they receive more energy from the wind?
100
A huge circle of moving water; moving counterclockwise
What is a southern hemisphere gyre?
200
Stream like movement of ocean water near or at the surface, caused by wind.
What is surface current?
200
Forms when the top of a wave topples over.
What is a breaker?
200
High evaporation and low rainfall cause the water of the Mediterranean Sea to have
What is higher salinity and higher density?
200
Two consecutive wave crests pass a given point in one
What is a wave period?
200
Cannot be detected in the open ocean, but devastating near the shore
What is a tsunami?
300
Global wind belts located just north and south of the equator.
What is Trade winds?
300
Moves in a group of long rolling waves.
What is a swell?
300
Three things important in the movement of surface currents.
What is Location of the continents, Earth's rotation, and winds?
300
Current most likely to FORM sandbars
What is a longshore current?
300
The wavelength is 72.5 m. The wave period is 9 seconds. Calculate the wavespeed.
What is 8.05 m/s or 8 m/s?
400
Stream like movement of ocean water far below the ocean's surface.
What is deep currents?
400
Forms when winds blow off the crest of a wave.
What is a whitecap?
400
One characteristic of the Antarctic Bottom Water
What is a high density?
400
waves strike the coastline head-on instead of at an angle as a result of
What is refraction?
400
Weak, and often confused with a very dangerous rip current.
What is undertow?
500
Global wind belts located in the middle latitudes.
What is westerlies?
500
Occurs in water as a periodic up-and-down movment.
What is a wave?
500
Causes gyres to form
What is Coriolis Effect?
500
Three factors that determine the size of a wave are
What is wind speed, fetch, and length of time the wind blows?
500
Moves from water molecule to water molecule.
What is how energy travels in ocean water?
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