Meteorology
The characteristics of western boundary currents.
What is warm, fast, and deep?
An underwater mountain that forms where sea floor spreading occurs.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
The primary propulsion method for ships prior to the Industrial Revolution.
What are sails?
The process of mooring a vessel directly onto a low-lying sandy coast.
What is beaching?
An immovable object made or modified by humans, as labeled in archaeology.
What is a feature?
This phenomenon, caused by Earth’s rotation, deflects moving air to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The source of movement of tectonic plates.
What is convection?
The term used to describe the rear part of a vessel.
What is the stern?
A structure built along/parallel to shore in order to allow ships and boats to dock, moor, load and unload.
What is a quay?
A classification used for artifacts in archaeology.
What is a typology?
The speed at which a wave train travels in relation to any specific wave within it.
What is one half the speed?
A boundary type that is characterized by frequent small, shallow earthquakes.
What is a divergent boundary?
The shipbuilding technique that involves the construction of the hull before adding frames.
What is shell-first technique?
A significant technological development for harbour construction that emerged in the Roman Period, commonly referred to as pozzolana.
What is hydraulic concrete?
The position of an archaeological find in time and space
What is archaeological context?
This is the "fuel" for any tropical storm.
What is warm ocean water?
A fault line characterized by two tectonic plates moving side by side.
What is a transform fault?
A straight, protruding attachment to the bow of a Phoenician vessel that made it sleeker and faster.
What is a cutwater?
An artificial, dugout, 'inner' harbour that became common in the Iron Age.
What is a cothon?
An underwater excavation tool that can suck sediments through the use of an air compressor and a pipe.
What is an airlift?
This effect results from wind applying surface pressure to the top layer of the ocean, and the Coriolis effect and wind drag causing a corkscrew pattern to form.
What is the Ekman Spiral?
In addition to fitting continents together like puzzle pieces, Alfred Wegener used this line of data to propose that continents were moving.
What is fossils?
The term used to describe a cast mass of metal found in large quantities on certain Bronze Age shipwrecks.
What is ingot?
A Roman Period wharf on the Red Sea coast in Egypt that was constructed using amphorae.
What is Myos Hormos?
A shipbuilding technique used throughout Antiquity commonly referred to as the "Phoenician Joint".
What is mortise-and-tenon?