Famous Beaches
This famous Florida beach is known for its hard-packed sand that allows cars to drive on it.
What is Daytona Beach?
This piece of equipment attaches a surfer to their board.
What is a leash?
This intelligent marine mammal is known for using echolocation and performing tricks at aquariums.
What is a dolphin?
Computer chips are commonly manufactured from highly purified wafers made of this element.
What is silicon?
This term describes the regular rise and fall of sea levels caused mainly by the Moon's gravity.
What are tides?
Located in Rio de Janeiro, this beach shares its name with a famous song by Barry Manilow.
What is Copacabana beach?
The act of riding inside the hollow part of a breaking wave is called riding this.
What is a barrel (or tube)?
These stinging animals are made up of about 95% water.
What are jellyfish?
This California region is named after the semiconductor industry.
What is Silicon Valley
The deepest known part of Earth's oceans is this trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This Hawaiian beach on Oahu's North Shore is world-famous for its giant winter surfing waves.
What is Waimea Bay?
This U.S. state is widely considered the birthplace of modern surfing.
What is Hawaii?
This largest fish species feeds primarily on plankton despite growing over 40 feet long.
What is a whale shark?
Silicon is most commonly found in beach sand as this compound.
What is silicon dioxide (silica)?
This ocean current helps keep western Europe warmer than other regions at similar latitudes.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This Australian beach shares its name with a famous rescue television drama from the 1990s.
What is Bondi Beach?
Surfers use this term for the area beyond the breaking waves where they wait for sets.
What is the lineup?
The symbiotic relationship between clownfish and this sea creature made Nemo famous.
Silicon's chemical symbol on the periodic table is this.
What is Si?
Scientists use this term for the layer of ocean where sunlight can penetrate enough for photosynthesis.
What is the photic zone?
Located on the island of La Digue, this Seychelles beach is known for its massive granite boulders.
What is Anse Source d'Argent?
This Hawaiian waterman is often called the "Father of Modern Surfing."
Who is Duke Kahanamoku?
This process occurs when corals expel the algae living in their tissues due to environmental stress.
What is coral bleaching?
Silicon falls into this category of elements between metals and nonmetals.
What is a metalloid?
This name is given to the global circulation system driven by differences in water temperature and salinity.
What is the thermohaline circulation?