Waves, Tides, & Currents Review

Waves, Tides, & Currents Review

Multiple Choice

What is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon?

• Waves

• Tides

• Currents

Multiple Select

Choose all the possible causes for waves

• Wind

• Gravity

• Underwater Earthquake

• Landslides

• Underwater Volcanic Eruption

Poll

Waves move energy through the water

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

These carried tennis shoes from a sunken freighter off Japan all the way to the coast

of California!

• Wave

• Tide

• Current

Multiple Choice

Hight Tides happens_________.

• four times a day

• two times a day

• three times a day

• once a day

Multiple Choice

Created by friction between the wind and the surface of the water

• Wave

• Tide

• Current

Multiple Select

Currents can be caused by:

• temperature

• wind patterns (trade winds)

• earth's rotation

• moons gravity

• salinity

Multiple Choice

A river of water in the ocean

• wave

• tide

• current

Poll

Primarily moves floating objects up and down

• Waves

• Tides

• Currents

Poll

In the Northern Hemisphere Currents move _____________

• Clockwise

• Counterclockwise

• Straight

Multiple Choice

7. All of the following are affected by ocean currents, except ___

• navigation routes

• timing of high and low tides

• mixing of ocean waters

• plant and animal populations

Multiple Choice

The lowest point on a wave is called

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• wave height

Multiple Choice

The lowest point on a wave is called

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• wave height