Climate
Which way does El Nino cause currents to flow in the Pacific?
Does evaporation increase or decrease salinity?
Increase
What is an estuary?
Where ocean salt water and river fresh water mix
Where do standing waves form?
Are semi-diurnal or diurnal tides more common?
Semi-diurnal
What is thermal expansion?
When molecules vibrate more so the distance between them increases - warms
What is the thermocline?
A layer of water where the temperature decreases rapidly
What part of the shore do the waves start to break?
Nearshore
What are internal waves?
Waves that oscillate within fluid, rather than on the surface
Spring
What type of acid is formed in ocean acidification?
Carbonic acid
What layer of the ocean holds the most energy?
What are barrier islands?
What is wave shoaling?
Waves entering shallow parts of water and increasing in hight but decreasing in wavelength
Do half moons occur during neap or spring tides?
Neap
During El Nino, the jet stream lowers. What is the affect of this on the North vs South US?
North is hotter/drier, South is cooler/wetter
What latitudes of the Earth have the largest surface water height?
45 degrees north and south
What's a fringing reef?
What are capillary waves?
Affected by surface tension and gravity
What does tidal resonance cause?
Larger
What is the Southern Annual Mode?
A measure of how north/south the Southern Westerly Winds move
Why does climate change cause stronger storms?
It causes the ocean to not be able to hold as much energy so it's put into storms
What is plunging?
Waves break suddenly, caused by off sea winds and low frequency waves, found when the sea floor suddenly rises
Explain how the moon's pull on the earth and oceans cause tides?
Pulls closest ocean and the earth creating a larger ocean height on both sides