Oceans
Waves
H2O
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History
100
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean.
100
In Japanese, Tsunami means this.
What is harbour wave.
100
This is the percentage of the Earth's surface covered by the world ocean?
What is about 70%
100
This is the name of the winds that cause heavy rain in India and Southeast Asia?
What are the monsoons.
100
What happened on November 18, 1929?
What is a tsunami hit the coast of Newfoundland.
200
This is the smallest ocean in the world?
What is the Arctic Ocean.
200
The Tsunami that happened on December 26, 2004 was the result of the tectonic plates sliding underneath each other in which ocean?
What is the Indian Ocean.
200
This current originates in Florida and travels pass Newfoundland.
What is the Gulf Stream.
200
This term means that something occurs twice a day.
What is semidiurnal.
200
Folklore from what nation tells of a giant whale creates tides by splashing in the Bay of Fundy?
What is the Mi'kmaq nation.
300
This is the part of the ocean that reaches into the land.
What is a bay.
300
Normal winds produce waves that are this high.
What is between 2-5 meters.
300
This is the percentage of the world's fresh water found in glaciers.
What is about 70%.
300
This is referred to as the difference between high and low tide in distance.
What is tidal range.
300
This is the name of the single great ocean that once covered a large part of the world.
What is Panthalassa.
400
North of the equator, all winds and currents turn in this direction.
What is clockwise.
400
How is the wavelength measured?
What is distance between one crest to the next or one tough to the next.
400
This is the number of major drainage basins in North America.
What is 5.
400
I am composed of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
What is acid rain.
400
In what body of water did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happen on April 20, 2010?
What is Gulf of Mexico.
500
Near the top of the ocean, the wave moves in what type of motion?
What is a circular motion.
500
This is the term used when waves cut out the bottom of rocks.
What is undercutting.
500
This is known as the changing of solid water (ice) to water vapor.
What is sublimation.
500
This temporary change in climate of the Pacific Ocean means little boy in Spanish.
What is El Nino.
500
In 2000, this ocean was renamed.
What is the Southern Ocean.
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