Waves, Currents & Tides 21

Which is the correct description of this image?

What is "D" on the diagram?

An ebb tide is -

In the southern hemisphere -

Which has the most gravitational pull on water?

What news does the ocean like to read?

What is "B" on the diagram?

A wave that moves up a river.

Large loops of rotating ocean currents are called -

How do you find electricity in the ocean?

Waves occurring when seas are calm, may deposit sand on beaches.

The difference in distance between high and low tide.

Eastern coasts tend to have warm water currents

How do you cut a wave in half?

Surface water is typically ______ than deep water.

What is "A" on the diagram?

Strong powerful waves formed during storms causing erosion along shorelines

What did the ocean say to the beach?

Why did the whale cross the ocean?

When there are really high high tides and really low low tides -

Large wave caused by sudden increase in underwater energy, usually from an earthquake

The different direction of wind and current flow in the northern and southern hemisphere is due to the -

In the northern hemisphere -

Water moving up a beach as a wave hits is -

Deep ocean currents are driven by -

Western coasts tend to have warm water currents

The main cause of waves is

Large wave caused by ocean swells that is twice the size of surrounding waves.

What does the line from "A-C" on the diagram measure?

What does the line that "E" is pointing to represent?