Waves
Ocean Currents
El Nino or La Nina?
Tides
When waves come in contact with shorelines
100
The highest part of the wave
What is crest
100
A continuous, directed movement of water
What is current
100
Causes a decrease in trade winds
What is El Nino
100
The slow rise and fall of the ocean
What is tide
100
The movement of weather particles
What is erosion
200
What is the lowest part of the wave ?
What is trough
200
A cold current which flows from the North
What is Labrador Current
200
Causes cooling of the ocean, therefore increased upwelling
What is La Nina
200
The difference in level between a high tide and a low tide is called
What is tidal range
200
The breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering
300
The distance from one crest to the next
What is wavelength
300
A warm water current which flows from the South
What is the Gulf Stream
300
Causes an increase in marine productivity
What is La Nina
300
The smallest tidal movements
What is neap tides
300
When eroded material is dropped and left behind
What is deposition
400
A wave that collapses onshore in a tumble of water
What is a breaker
400
When the Labrador Current and the Gulf stream meet, the warm and cold water combination often leads to what?
What is fog
400
The tidal movement which occurs when the Sun and the Moon are at right angles of each other.
What is neap tides
400
Name three landforms that result from the processes erosion and deposition caused by wave action and flow
What is beaches, shoals, sandbars, sea caves, sea arches and sea stacks.
500
Smooth waves are called
What is swells
500
Newfoundland and Labrador's close proximity to the Labrador Current and the Gulf stream affects the climate. Fog is one example. What is another?
What is temperature fluctuations within short time frames
500
What are the effects of El Nino on trade winds, ocean temperature and marine productivity?
What is decrease in trade winds, cooling ocean temperature and increase in marine productivity.
500
The tidal movement when the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are in a line.
What is Spring Tide
500
Name a technology that is designed to contain damage due to waves and tides.
What is breakwater, jetty/wharf and sea walls.
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