Ocean Motion

What is friction?

• Force causing wave to slow down

• Long, low waves traveling across the open ocean

• Force pulling water back out to sea

• Water rushing back out to sea

• Horizontal distance between troughs, crests

What are swells?

• Force causing wave to slow down

• Long, low waves traveling across the open ocean

• Force pulling water back out to sea

• Water rushing back out to sea

• Horizontal distance between troughs, crests

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What is gravity?

• Force causing wave to slow down

• Long, low waves traveling across the open ocean

• Force pulling water back out to sea

• Water rushing back out to sea

• Horizontal distance between troughs, crests

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What is undertow?

• Force causing wave to slow down

• Long, low waves traveling across the open ocean

• Force pulling water back out to sea

• Water rushing back out to sea

• Horizontal distance between troughs, crests

What is wavelength?

• Force causing wave to slow down

• Long, low waves traveling across the open ocean

• Force pulling water back out to sea

• Water rushing back out to sea

• Horizontal distance between troughs, crests

What is a sand bar?

• Formed from slow waves depositing sand in shallow water

• Effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans

• High part of the wave

• Rush of water flowing back to sea through narrow opening

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What is the Coriolis effect?

• Formed from slow waves depositing sand in shallow water

• Effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans

• High part of the wave

• Rush of water flowing back to sea through narrow opening

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What are currents?

• Formed from slow waves depositing sand in shallow water

• Effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans

• High part of the wave

• Rush of water flowing back to sea through narrow opening

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the crest?

• Formed from slow waves depositing sand in shallow water

• Effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans

• High part of the wave

• Rush of water flowing back to sea through narrow opening

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

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What is a rip current?

• Formed from slow waves depositing sand in shallow water

• Effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans

• High part of the wave

• Rush of water flowing back to sea through narrow opening