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Tides
Atmospheric Winds
Ocean Currents
Waves
Tsunamis
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The tides are influenced by the gravitational pull and centrifugal force cause by movement of these three objects.
What are Earth, moon, and sun?
100
Winds in the atmosphere are driven by this.
What are changes in air pressure due to uneven heating of the Earth's atmosphere, caused by radiation from the sun?
100
Ocean currents are driven by what?
What are atmospheric winds?
100
Ocean waves are highest at this and lowest at this.
What are the CREST and TROUGH?
100
Three causes of tsunamis.
What are earthquakes, submarine landslides, glacial calving, volcanoes, and meteors?
200
The largest and smallest tidal ranges throughout the tidal month.
What are SPRING and NEAP tides?
200
This is the effect when the movement of winds and currents is deflected due to the rotation of the Earth.
Coriolis effect
200
The effect of the Ekman spiral does this with depth.
What is decrease?
200
Three types of waves distinguished by where they are located or their driving force.
What are seas (deep-water waves), swells, and surf?
200
In Japanese the word "tsunami" means this.
What is "harbor wave"?
300
The three types of tides.
What are diurnal, semi-diurnal, and mixed semi-diurnal?
300
The three types of global winds caused by the rising and falling of convection cells.
What are trade winds, westerlies, and easterlies?
300
The net transport of water due to Ekman transport moves at this angle to the forcing wind.
What is 90 degrees?
300
The span of open water over which the wind blows.
What is fetch?
300
A warning sign along the shoreline that a tsunami is approaching.
What is the receding of the ocean by many feet below typical low tide?
400
Points of almost no vertical movement from tidal action, located in the center of ocean basins.
What are amphidromics points or tidal nodes?
400
The convection cells nearest the Equator.
What are Hadley Cells?
400
Massive circulatory currents in the ocean basins.
What are ocean gyres?
400
The ratio (wavelength:wave height) at which waves will break
What is 1:7?
400
The deadliest tsunami in history that killed 200,000+ people.
What is the Indian Ocean tsunami (epicenter - Sumatra)?
500
The largest tidal range in the world is found here.
What is the Bay of Fundy?
500
Coriolis causes objects to turn to this direction in the Northern Hemisphere and this direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
What are RIGHT and LEFT?
500
The oceanic current that brings warm water past New England.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
The movement of sediment (sand) along a coast due to waves approaching the coastline at an angle.
What is longshore transport?
500
This location in the Canary Islands that could potentially produce a massive tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is La Palma?