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Random Water Facts 2
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A waves height depends on these 3 characteristics of wind.
What are how fast, how long, and how far wind blows over the water?
100
The link between Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and tides is this.
What is Gravity?
100
The movement of these is mostly responsible for the origin and formation of the ocean basins.
What are the Tectonic Plates?
100
These flow from the tropics to the higher latitudes.
What are Warm Surface Currents?
100
The average number of waves that reach the shore each day.
What is 14,000?
200
The height of a wave is measured from the __________ to the __________.
What is from the Crest to the Trough
200
Neap tides occur when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are __________________.
What is perpendicular to each other.
200
The youngest part of the sea floor.
What are the Mid-Ocean Ridges?
200
This stirring of the ocean brings nutrients to the surface and provides a rish source of nutrients for fish.
What is Upwelling?
200
This can eat away as much as 1 meter of shoreline every year!
What is Erosion?
300
This part of the shoreline is where waves strike first and the hardest.
What is a Headland?
300
The difference in level between a high tide and a low tide is called a ______________________.
What is a Tidal Range?
300
The Hawaiin Islands are a great example of this ocean feature.
What is a Seamount?
300
The direction water is deflected in the southern hemiphere.
What is counter-clockwise?
300
In the YouTube video on Tides, the hunters were looking for this.
What are Mussels?
400
The name given to a wave when its crest outruns its trough and topples forward.
What is a Breaker wave?
400
The number of bulges during Spring Tides.
What is 2?
400
As the plates move together, the ocean plate is forced to bend steeply down beneath the heavier ____________________.
What is the Continental Plate?
400
The only Ocean Current not deflected by a land mass.
What is the Antartic Circumpolar?
400
The amount of pressure per square inch at the bottom of the world's deepest trench, Mariana's Trench.
What is 16,000 lbs per square inch?
500
Water passes energy along by moving this in a circular motion.
What are water particles?
500
If the last low tide was recorded at 6:52 p.m. and the last high tide was recorded at 1:30 p.m., the next high tide will be at _______?
What is 1:04 a.m.?
500
Formed of thick deposits of sediment up to 1 km deep in places.
What are the Abyssal Plains?
500
Name 3 of the 6 Ocean Currents.
What are: 1) North Pacific, 2) North Atlantic 3) South Pacific, 4) South Atlantic, 5) South Indian 6) Antartic Circumpolar
500
The cold bottom layer of ocean water can take up to __________ to circulate completely through the oceans.
What is up to 1000 years?