Vocabulary
The Tidal Cycle
Tidal Patterns
Breaking Waves
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100
The daily changes in the elevation of the ocean surface.
What is tides?
100
The two forces that cause tides.
What is sun and moon?
100
The number of main, world-wide tidal patterns.
What is three?
100
When the front of a wave collapses on itself.
What is breaking waves?
100
The person who proposed the law of gravitation to tides.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
The distance that the wind has traveled across open water.
What is fetch?
200
The main force causing tides.
What is the moon?
200
The tidal pattern with a single high and low tide each tidal day.
What is diurnal tide?
200
When the wave reaches depth of half its wavelength.
What is feel bottom?
200
The reason the sun has less affect on tides.
What is distance from Earth?
300
The time it takes one full wave to pass a fixed position.
What is wave period?
300
The difference in height between successive high and love tides.
What is tidal range?
300
Tidal pattern with two high and low tides each tidal day.
What is semidiurnal tidal pattern?
300
The affect shallow waters have on waves.
What is slow and steepen?
300
The top of a wave.
What is the crest?
400
The horizontal distance between two successive crests and two successive trough
What is wavelength?
400
Tides with the greatest tidal range.
What is spring tides?
400
Tidal pattern with a large inequlaity of high, low, or both water heights.
What is mixed tidal pattern?
400
The depth of water when it begins to affect wave velocity, movement, etc.
What is half its wavelength?
400
Tidal pattern located along the Atlantic Coast.
What is semidiurnal tide patterns?
500
The vertical distance between trough and crest.
What is wave height?
500
Tides when the sun and moon act on Earth as right angles making the tidal range less.
What is neap tides?
500
Where the diurnal tides are located.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
500
Where water goes once the wave breaks.
What is up shore?
500
The visible evidence of energy passing through water.
What is waves?
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