Waves, Tides, and Currents Test

What is the transfer of energy through matter?

• waves
• crest
• trough
• wave height and wavelength

What is the top of a wave called?

• waves
• crest
• trough
• wave height and wavelength

What is the bottom of a wave called?

• waves
• crest
• trough
• wave height and wavelength

What two measurements are used to measure the size of a wave?

• waves
• crest
• trough
• wave height and wavelength

What is the cause of most ocean waves?

• sound
• wind
• water
• clouds

What can make a wave larger?

• more ice melts decreasing the salinity
• tsunami
• rouge wave
• more wind and longer distance for the wave to build

What is a wave that is 2 to 3 times larger than all the other waves around it called?

• more ice melts decreasing the salinity
• tsunami
• rouge wave
• more wind and longer distance for the wave to build

What are waves caused by earthquakes called?

• more ice melts decreasing the salinity
• tsunami
• rouge wave
• more wind and longer distance for the wave to build

Why does a wave break when it reaches shore?

• the wave is traveling too fast
• the wind stops blowing so it falls over
• the wind at the shore blows in the opposite direction making the wave fall over
• the wave moves faster at the top then the bottom making it fall over

What is the rise and fall of the ocean water due to the position of the sun and the moon?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• tide
• high tide
• low tide