Currents
What is a tide?
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The rise and fall of ocean water levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
BONUS QUESTION: How often do tides happen?
What causes waves?
Waves in the ocean are caused by wind, earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions.
What is condensation?
The process by which a gas such as water vapor, changes to a liquid, such as water.
What are the mechanisms that help start or maintain the water cycle?
The sun heats the surface or ocean water where gravity brings water down to earth from high land elevations or the atmosphere.
What is a surface current?
a current near the surface of the ocean that is driven by global wind systems that are fueled by energy from the sun
What is it called when water is at its lowest point on land?
low tide
What are waves?
Waves are movements of water on the surface of the ocean that carry energy from one place to another.
What is precipitation?
Any form of water, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, that falls to the earth's surface.
What is an aquifer?
An underground layer of rock or soil that holds water.
What are deep ocean currents?
These deep water currents are known as the global conveyor belt and this belt is driven by density and temperature differences in the water.
What is it called when water reaches the highest point on land?
high tide
When an underwater volcano erupts, what happens to its energy?
It becomes ocean waves.
What is evaporation?
To change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor.
What is a lake, river or stream?
bodies of water on Earth where freshwater is being collected and stored in various locations during the water cycle.
Which describes the Coriolis Effect’s effect on ocean currents?
The force caused by the Earth's rotation that drives the wind that moves the ocean's surface water, and determines the directions of surface currents.
What is a Neap Tide?
a period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.
How are waves arranged in size?
Waves come in a variety of sizes and shapes, from tiny ripples from the wind to gigantic waves during hurricanes.
What is infiltration?
Precipitation that lands on the ground soaks into the earth.
What is groundwater?
Water that fills the cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.
Why would ocean currents circulate within the layer of water with the same density?
Circulation in the depths of the ocean is horizontal. That is, water moves along the layers with the same density. There is the ocean "conveyor belt", where surface waters sink, enter deep water circulation, then resurface after slowly flowing through the deep ocean.
What is a Spring tide?
A tide in which the difference between high and low tide is the greatest. Spring tide occurs when the Earth, Moon, and Sun’s collective gravitational pull on the Earth's water is strengthened.
What is a colossal wave caused by an offshore earthquake that can destroy entire cities called?
A tsunami.
What is transpiration?
where plants absorb water from the soil through their roots, transport it through their stems, and release it as water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is runoff?
Water from rain or snow that flows over the surface of the ground into streams.