Physical Science Final

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Disturbance or variance that transfers energy progressively from one point to another

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Wave

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Vertical distance between trough and crest

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Wave height

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Horizantal distance between trough and crest

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Wave length

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Rate of wind movement in distance per unit time

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Windspeed

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waves move from deep to shallow water and begin to get affected by the ocean bottom. The wave drags, sloping bottom wedges wave up, increasing wave height and then it breaks.

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Wave Breaking

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the bending of wave crests to parallel the sea floor's contours

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wave refraction

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A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A large headland may also be called a peninsula

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Headland

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the process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle

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Longshore Drift

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geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock

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beach

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a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure.

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Cliff

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a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water

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Reef

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A coastline where sediment is not accumulating and wave action grinds away at the shore. Features came because of erosion

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Erosional Coastline

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Deposits of sediment form these

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Depositional Coastline

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A shoreline transformed from a hilly land surface to an archipelago of small islands by inundation.

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Drowned coast

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the flow of water influenced by gravity as the water moves downhill to reduce its potential energy

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Currents

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A method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils in other layers of rock

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Relative Dating

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produced from the radioactive decay of parent isotopes. They may be at a permanent stable state, or break down even further

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Daughter Isotope

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any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation

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Inclusion

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a technique used to date materials, usually based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope and its decay products, using known decay rates; alternative form of radioactive dating

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Radiometric dating

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assumes that the same natural processes that operate in the universe now, have always operated on the universe in the past, and at the same rates; and that the same laws of physics apply everywhere in the universe

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Uniformitarianism