Waves
The highest part of a wave
What is the Crest?
The distance measures between tides
What is Tidal Range?
A river of circulating water caused by wind, earths rotation and density changes
What is a current?
This Ocean zone gets the most sunlight
What is the intertidal zone?
When we first walk into the ocean we are here
What is the Continental Shelf?
The lowest part of a wave
What is the Trough?
The cause of tides
What is the gravitational pull of the sun, moon, and earth?
This makes currents run clockwise and counter clockwise, depending on what hemisphere you're in
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This Ocean Zone gets the least sunlight
What is the Hadal Zone?
This is where the ocean floor drops off down to the bottom of the ocean
What is the Continental Slope?
Measured from Crest to Crest
What is Wave Length?
The force that contributes to a tidal bulge
What is centrifugal force?
These are rings of circulating water that "pinch" off from the main current
What is an Eddy?
Sunlit zone vs no sun zone
What are photic and aphotic?
This formation might start from a hot spot and continue to grow until it reaches above sea level
What is a seamount?
Measured from trough to crest
What is wave height?
This type of tide happens when the moon and sun are in direct line with the Earth
What is a spring tide?
This type of current flows parallel to the shore, moving sediment
What is a Longshore Current?
The three types of Ocean organisms
What are plankton, nekton, and benthos?
This type of formation occurs when subduction occurs on the sea floor. The _________ is the deepest one we know of.
What is a trench and the Marianis Trench?
The three things that determine the size of wing generated waves
What are wind speed, length of time the wind blows and the fetch
The tides that happen when the moon is closest, and when the moon is furthest from the Earth, in that order
What are Perigee and Apogee Tides?
This current brings warm water from the equator along the east coast of North America. Some say it's the most important current in the world
What is the Gulf Stream?
This describes the entire Ocean Zone
What is Pelagic?
This formation occurs when two plate boundaries collide and push each other upwards
What is a Rift zone or Rift valley?