Storms
The name for a hurricanes in the pacific ocean.
What are typhoons?
The point of the wave with the maximum value of upward displacement within a cycle.
What is the crest?
The lowest level of the tide.
What is low tide?
Surface currents
What controls surface circulation?
At a subduction zone this plate will always go over this plate.
What is continental over oceanic?
The number of categories of hurricanes.
What is 5?
Massive waves caused by earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
The tide at its fullest, when the water reaches its highest level.
What is high tide?
Deep water currents influence this.
What is Thermohaline circulation?
The region of the ocean do most hurricanes occur.
What is the West Pacific?
The distance of open water that the wind can blow across without changing direction.
What is fetch?
A right angle if formed between the sun and moon, as when we see a half moon, we notice a smaller difference between high and low tides.
What is neap tides?
this makes up about 10% of the water in the ocean
What are surface currents?
The direction that hurricanes /typhoons spin in each hemisphere.
Clockwise in the northern hemisphere
Counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere
When the Moon, Earth, and Sun fall in a straight line, we notice the greatest difference between high and low tide water levels. These tides occur twice each month.
What is a spring tide?
This influences where the current goes.
What are secondary currents?
The wind speed at which tropical storms become hurricanes.
What is 74 mph?
Wind speed, wind duration, and fetch.
What are the 3 things that determine the size of wind generated waves?
A strong channel of water flowing seaward from near the shore, typically through the surf line. They can occur at any beach with breaking waves, including oceans, seas and even large lakes.
What is a rip tide?
Solar heating, wind, gravity and the Coriolis effect.
What are the primary forces?
The region of the Earth’s crust where the tectonic plates meet.
What is a subduction zone?