Wave Formation
The highest point in the wave structure.
What is crest?
The length of time that the wind blows.
What is Wind Duration?
The Japanese term that means "harbor wave".
What is a Tsunami?
The short term change in height of the ocean's surface.
What is Tide?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The difference between high and low tide.
What is Tidal Range?
The time it takes for a wave to move a distance of one wavelength.
What is Wave Period?
An uninterrupted distance over which the wind blows without a change in direction.
What is a Fetch?
What are Satellites? or What is TOPEX/Poseidon?
Consists of a new and full moon.
What is a Spring Tide?
Based on shapes of the coastline, depth of water, and location of the continents.
What are tides?
When the top and bottom half of a wave move the opposite direction. Think rubber ducky...
What is Stoke's Drift?
This is produced by interference.
What is Irregular Wave Motion?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Measure earthquake activity.
What are Seabed Seismometers?
Stated that heavy bodies attract each other more strongly than light bodies do.
Who is Issac Newton?
The explanation of the difference between the equilibrium theory of tides, and why the same region may experience tides at different times.
What is the Dynamic Theory of Tides?
The three major causes of tides.
What is the Earth, Sun, and Moon?
They look for sets of waves to surf.
Who are Surfers?
Water that can travel inland at speeds of 100 mph+.
What are Tsunami waves or Tsunami flood waves?
Is made of 24 hours and 50 minutes.
What is a Tidal Day?
The large influx of water at high tide.
What is a Tidal Bore?
The force that pulls the water back toward itself.
What is Gravity?
It pushes the crest downward through the trough.
What is Atmospheric pressure?
What is a Meteorite.
It explains the balance and effects of the forces that allow a planet to stay in the stable orbit around the sun or the moon to orbit the Earth.
What is the Equilibrium Theory of Tides?
These are steep waves that can move upstream at river's entrance due to gravitational pull.
What is a Tidal Wave?
DOUBLE JEOPARODY!