Aspect of oceanography that focuses on plant and animal life in the sea
What is Biological Oceanography
These strong currents, often encountered at beaches can carry a swimmer many yards off shore
What are Rip Currents
This ocean contains an enormous current known as the Gulf Stream
What is The Atlantic Ocean
The distance between two wave crests or troughs
what is wavelength?
underwater disturbances can create monster waves known as
What are Tsunamis
Many North Atlantic humpback whales migrate between these two places.
what are the Caribbean and Stellwagen Bank?
This current carries warm water up the East Coast of the United States
What is The Gulf Stream
These are created by combining the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun and the rotation of the Earth
What are Ocean Tides
This is the name for the divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?