Waves
Vocab
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The Water Cycle
Challenge Accepted?
100
Main cause of waves.
What is wind?
100
Distance that the wind blows in contact with the sea's surface.
What is fetch?
100
Warm water is less ______ than cold water.
What is dense?
100
Liquid to gas (slowly).
What is evaporation?
100
Water is a ________ molecule, like a magnet.
What is polar?
200
Larger fetches created _________ waves.
What is larger?
200
Lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
The northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay has a ________ salinity than the ocean.
What is lower?
200
Water falling from the clouds in various forms.
What is precipitation?
200
The type of bond water molecules make between their positive and negative poles in adjacent molecules.
What are Hydrogen Bonds?
300
water molecules move in clockwise circles called _______.
Orbits.
300
Zone where salinity increases with depth.
What is a Halocline?
300
Upwellings are ares where dense, cool, nutrient-________ water moves upward.
What is rich?
300
Gas to liquid.
What is Condensation?
300
Salinity of the Chesapeake Bay typically _________ in autumn.
What is increases?
400
Huge ocean waves caused by seismic events.
What are Tsunamis?
400
Zone where density increases with depth.
What is a pycnocline?
400
El Nino causes coastal upwellings in Peru to _________.
What is stop/cease/discontinue?
400
Horizontal movement of water in the atmosphere.
What is transportation?
400
The pH of the ocean.
What is 8?
500
Tsunamis in the open ocean can be short, but have a long ____________ and are very __________.
Wavelength, Deep
500
Type of molecule that helps to maintain a constant pH.
What is a buffer?
500
El Nino causes a ________ in ocean temperatures across the Pacific.
What is rise?
500
Release of water molecules from plants.
What is transpiration?
500
pH is a measure of __________ concentration.
What is Hydrogen Ion, Hydrogen, H+?
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