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Tides
Currents
Waves
Vocab lab
Salinity
100
The key to tides is ?
What is the varying strength of the moons gravitational pull on differerent parts of the globe.
100
What 3 ways cause currents?
What is wind, tides, and gravity.
100
Most waves are caused by this...
What is wind.
100
Winds, tides, and gravtiy cause this.
What is currents.
100
Table salt initials.
What is na ci?
200
When the moon, sun, & earth fall in a straight line.
What is syzygy.
200
What do currents do.
What is large amounts of water in great distances.
200
No 2 waves are identical. True or False?
What is true.
200
Different bodys of water have different amounts of _____ ______.
What is salt mixed in.
200
Different boddies of water have different amounts of salt. True or false?
What is true.
300
Tides cause this certain thing.
What is currents.
300
What is part of a larger current system.
What is the gulf stream.
300
The waves shape and size reveal its ______.
What is origins.
300
A type of tide.
What is spring tides or neap tides.
300
Fresh water salinity is usually less than 0.5 ppt. If water is between 0.5 and 17. ppt is is called?
What is brackish
400
Their are 2 types of tides called ?
What is spring tides & neap tides.
400
What are surface currents mainly caused by ?
What is wind.
400
What causes a steep choopy wave.
What is a local storm.
400
The mixing and warming cause what ?
What is tides.
400
Where does some of the salt in the ocean come from?
What is undersea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.
500
How do tides happen.
What is the moons gravitational pull.
500
What circullar patterns do currents move in?
What is gyres.
500
The top of the wave.
What is the crest.
500
When the moon, sun and, earth fall into a straight line.
What is syzygy.
500
Over millions of years, rain, rivers, and streams have washed over rocks containing the compound __________.
What is sodium chloride