GOL 112 Ch. 8 & 9 Review Quizizz

Everywhere on Earth, tides are:

• Deep-water waves

• Transitional Waves

• Shallow-water waves

• Capillary waves

Waves that break along the shore forming a curling crest over an air pocket are called:

• swells

• surging breakers

• plunging breakers

• surf

• spilling breakers

The center of an open ocean tidal system is called a/an ________.

• amphidromic point

• cotidal line

• rotary center

• low tide

• high tide

The Moon at its closest point in it's orbit around the Earth is called ______.

• Apogee

• Perigee

• Perihelion

• Aphelion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth at it's furthest point from the Sun is called ______?

• Perigee

• Apogee

• Perihelion

• Aphelion

What is the wavelength divided by the wave period equal to?

• Wavelength

• Wave steepness

• Deep-water wave speed

• Shallow water wave speed

• Wave frequency

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

In Oceanography, fetch refers to

• a method of shoreline erosion control

• a type of wave-cut platform on the shore

• the circular motion made by water particles when a wave passes

• the distance between a trough of a wave and the still water level

• the distance over which the wind blows over the ocean without interruption

What is the name of the tides that have an exceptionally large tidal range that occurs every ~1.5 years when spring tides at perigee correspond with perihelion?

• Quadrature

• Spring

• Neap

• Proxigean

• Syzygy

Wave height is equal to:

• the depth to the wave base

• the diameter of the wave orbital motion at the ocean surface

• half the distance from trough to crest

• crest to crest

• wave frequency

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

One half of a wave's wavelength, measured down from still water level is:

• wave base

• wavelength

• tidal bore

• wave frequency

• wave height