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15 Cards in this Set
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Wave
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The movement of energy through a body of water.
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Wave Length
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The horizontal distance between crests.
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Frequency
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The number of wave that pass a point and a certain amount of time.
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Wave Height
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The vertical distance from the crests to the trough.
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Tsunami
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A wave formed far below the ocean surface caused by a earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
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Longshore drift
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The movement of sand along a beach.
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Rip current
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A rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening.
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Groin
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A wall of rocks built to reduced beach erosion out ward from the beach.
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Inter tidal Zone
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Begins a the highest high tide line on land and strechs out to the point on the continental shelf exposed by the lowest low tide.
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Neritic Zone
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Extends from the low tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf.
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Open ocean zone
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Beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
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plankton
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Tiny algae and animals that float in the water and are carried by wave and currents.
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Nekton
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Free swimming animals that can move though out the water column.
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Benthos
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Organisms that in habit the ocean floor.
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Food web
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Made up of all the feeding relationships that exists in a habitat.
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