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Tides
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Challenge-No Book!
100
Definition: "produced"
What is generated?
100
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered by oceans
What is 70%?
100
The two ways a tsunami may be generated
What are an earthquake and a volcanic explosion?
100
The speed at which a tsunami wave can travel
What is 500 miles per hour?
100
The author of "Oceans" and many books about science and nature
Who is Seymour Simon?
200
Definition: "a part that swells outward"
What is a bulge?
200
One thing Earth has that other planets in our solar system do not
What is liquid water?
200
The word meaning “distance over which a wave travels”
What is "fetch"?
200
The location of the earthquake which caused a tsunami that hit Oahu, Hawaii
What are the Aleutian Islands in Alaska?
200
This causes waves to form
What is the wind?
300
Definitiona; "adjective describing a force by which two bodies attract each other”
What is gravitational?
300
The number of times per month the sun and moon are lined up with the Earth
What is twice?
300
This forms when a wave slows down and falls into the trough of the wave in front of it
What is a breaker?
300
The page where the author explains how the ocean reshapes the land “every moment of every day?
What is page 310?
300
This forms when a group of waves of about the same wavelength join together
What is a swell?
400
Definition: a narrow strip of water leading into land
What is an inlet?
400
The smallest tides, which occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other
What are neap tides?
400
What was the height of the highest wave on record?
What is 112 feet (or the height of a 10-story building)?
400
The height difference between high and low tide in the Bay of Fundy
What is fifty feet?
400
One reason it is important for students to learn about the oceans
Teacher will decide if the answer is acceptable!
500
Definition: "the capacity for doing work or supplying power”
What is energy?
500
The gravitational pull of these two objects causes the tides
What are the sun and the moon?
500
The high spot of a wave
What is the crest?
500
The expression some people use when the wave travels more slowly and changes shape
What is is “the wave begins to feel the bottom”?
500
The genre of "Oceans"
What is expository nonfiction?