Parts of the wave
This is the top of the wave
What is the crest?
This is when water is at it's lowest
What is low tide?
These are currents that only occur on the surface
What is surface currents?
This is how waves are caused
What is wind, earthquakes, and gravitational pull
This tide only occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are at a right angle
What is neap tides?
This is the bottom the the wave
What is the trough?
This is when water is at it's highest
What is high tide?
This is the "colder" current
What is a deep current?
This is where the biggest wave surfed occured
This tide has the smallest tidal range
What is neap tide?
This is the term to determine how long the waves are
What is wavelength?
This is how often how tides occur
This is the "warmer current"
What is a surface current?
This is where the biggest tsunami is
What is Alaska?
This tide has the largest tidal range
What is Spring tide?
This determines the height of the wave
What is wave height?
This is a synonym to neap tides
What is weak tides?
This is a deep current
This is how big the smallest tsunami was
What is one foot?
This tide creates the smallest gravitational pull on the oceans
What is neap tides?
This the distance between sea level and the top of the wave
What is amplitude?
This is a tide
What is the periodic rise and fall of the sea?
Air currents do this
What is the factor that affects the flow of the ocean?
This is wave frequency
What is "how many waves pass during a given time?"
This tide has the strongest pull on the oceans
What is spring tides?