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15 Cards in this Set
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What are surface currents?
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Horizontal movement of ocean water
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What is the coriolis effect?
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Curving of a moving object
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What is salinity?
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Measure of the amount of dissolved salt in a given amount of liquid
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What is the difference between a crest and trough
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Crest- highest point of the wave
Trough- lowest part of the wave |
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What are swells
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One of a group of long ocean waves that steadily travel
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What are gulf streams?
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carries warm water from the tropics to the north atlantic
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what is the california current?
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carries cold water from thenorth pacific southward to mexico
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What is El Nino
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changee in the surface water tempeture in the pacific ocean that produces a warm current
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What is a spring tide
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a tide of increased range that occurs 2 times a month at the new and full moon
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What is the neap tide?
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a tide of minimum range the occurs during the first and third quarter of the moon
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what is a upwelling?
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the movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface
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what is the density of water?
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frozen-rises
liquids-sinks |
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What is the difference between a river and surface current?
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River- a body of water that flows
surface current- top of the water that flows |
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what is the difference between a breaker zone and a surf
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surf- water hits the beach
breaker zone- water crashes at its peak |
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What is wave hight
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how high a wave is
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