Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Catch the Wave
Feelin' Blue
Surf's Up
100
The amount and type of dissolved salts in water.
What is salinity.
100
A long, undersea mountain chain that forms along the floor of the ocean.
What is mid-ocean ridge.
100
The highest point of a wave.
What is crest.
100
What are Earth's 5 main oceans?
What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic.
100
How do most ocean waves form?
What is when wind transfers energy to the ocean surface.
200
A layer in a body of water in which water temperature drops with increased depth faster than it does in other layers.
What is thermocline.
200
Any disturbance that transfers energy through matter or empty space.
What is a wave.
200
The distance between two adjacent wave crests or troughs.
What is wavelength.
200
What are two physical properties of ocean water?
What are temperature and density.
200
What are two ways other than wind that waves can form?
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, meteorites and asteroids.
300
The edge of a continent that is covered by the ocean.
What is continental margin.
300
A disturbance that transfers energy through ocean water.
What is an ocean wave.
300
Half the distance between a crest and trough.
What is amplitude.
300
Ocean water temperature varies by latitude, depth and ___________.
What is season.
300
How do you calculate wave speed?
What is multiply wavelength by frequency.
400
The ocean floor under the deep-ocean water.
What is deep-ocean basin.
400
The measurement of how much time it takes for a wave to pass a fixed point.
What is wave period.
400
How fast a wave travels.
What is wave speed.
400
Three distinct temperature zones in the ocean.
What are surface zone, thermocline, deep zone.
400
Waves transfer _____________, not matter.
What is energy.
500
A long, narrow depression in the deep ocean basin.
What is ocean trench.
500
A wave that carries energy though matter, such as water.
What is mechanical wave.
500
The amount of waves produced in a given amount of time.
What is frequency.
500
What are two ways that the ocean floor is studied.
What are a.) with sonar b.) with satellites c.) underwater vessels d.) deep-sea drilling
500
Wave A passes buoy 1 at 6:58pm and buoy 2 at 7:04 pm. What is its period?
What is 6 mns.
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