Vocabulary
Currents
Waves
Wave Speed
Toss Up
100
This is a movement of ocean water that follows a regular pattern
What is an ocean current?
100
These are the two temperatures related to currents
What are warm and cold?
100
This is the distance between two crests of a wave
What is a wavelength?
100
This is a wave's speed when the wavelength is 2 meters and the wave period is 1 second
What is 2m/s?
100
This is where tsunamis happen
What is in the Pacific Ocean?
200
This is the movement of deep, nutrient-rich water moving to the surface
What is upwelling?
200
This is how a current changes direction as it approaches a continent
What is continental deflection?
200
This is the time it takes two crests of a wave to pass a fixed point
What is a wave period?
200
This is a wave's speed when the wavelength is 10 meters and the wave period is 5 seconds
What is 2m/s?
200
This is the scientific unit of measure for time
What is seconds?
300
This has the largest range of water levels and occur during full moons and new moons
What is a spring tide?
300
This is the temperature of the ocean currents near the surface
What is warm?
300
This is the equation for calculating wave speed
What is wavelength/wave period?
300
This is a wave's speed when the wave period is 15.25 seconds and the wavelength is 6.15 meters
What is 0.40m/s?
300
These are two good things about upwelling
What is it helps plants grow and it helps plankton grow?
400
This is a giant ocean wave that forms after a volcanic eruption
What is a tsunami?
400
This is the temperature of the ocean currents below the surface
What is cold?
400
This is the scientific unit of measure for wavelength
What is meters (m)?
400
This is a wave's speed when the wave period is 10.75 seconds and the wavelength is 23.65 meters
What are 2.2m/s?
400
Besides the Coriolis effect and continental deflection, this is the third thing that affects ocean currents
What is global winds?
500
This is the apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
These are the three ways deep ocean currents form
What is decreasing temperature, increasing salinity through freezing, or increasing salinity through evaporation?
500
This is a wave's speed that has a wavelength of 64m and a wave period of 16s
What is 4m/s?
500
This is the wavelength when a wave has a speed of 11.25m/s and the wave period is 2.75 seconds
What is 30.94m?
500
This is how an object moves in the ocean when currents are not involved
What is rising and falling in a circular motion?
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