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Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 41mins
What is the definition of a wave?
The horizontal distance between crests
A moving arch of water
The movement of energy through a body of water
The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time
What is the definition of wavelength
The horizontal distance between crests
An undertow
The vertical distance from the crest to the trough
The white-capped waves that crash onto the shore
What is the defintion of frequency?
A rush of water that fills rapidly back to the sea through a narrow opening
The stregnth of a wave
How long it takes for a wave to hit a shore
The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time
What is the definition of wave height
The horizontal distance between crests
The vertical distance from the crest to the trough
The movement of sand along a beach
The rows of waves that gradually turn and become more parallel to the shore
What is the definition of a tsunami?
A man made wave the is bigger then normal waves
A wave that shapes a beach
A giant and fast moving wave
A wave that is usually cause by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
What is the definition of Longshore drift?
Water that washes onto a beach and takes sand with it when it pulls away.
Direction of waves.
Waves that shape a beach.
A method of stopping erosion on a beach.
what is the definition of a rip current?
Waves that shape a beach by eroding the shore.
A wall of stone and concrete.
A rush of water that flows rapidly back to sea through a narrow opening.
A giant wave caused by an earthquake.
What the definition of a groin?
A wall of rock or concrete that reduce the amount of erosion along a beach.
A process of erosion
A wave that causes erosion on a beach
A landform that protects shorelines from erosion
What is the defintion of a sand dune?
Hills of windblown sand
A beach with hills of sand
A large open area of sand
A plateu made of sand
How does a tsunami form?
When strong winds transfer their energy to the water causing it to grow in a great amount
When strong winds lift smaller waves and cause them to rise in a large amount
By an earthquack under the ocean floor
When light winds tranfer their energy to the water
What does longshore drift do to the ocean?
It causes waves to carry grains of sand through the ocean
It drops sand as it moves away forming long ridges
It causes beachs to shrink at a steady pace
What direction does a rip current pull a swimmer?
Torwards the sea
Torwards the land
Under the waves
No direction
What do Barrier Beaches do?
It completely stops erosion
It reduces erosion along a strech of beach
It protects shorelines from wave action that occurs along low-lying beaches
It protects shorelines from wave action that occurs along high-lying beaches
What do sand dunes do?
Makes a beach more stable
Increase erosion
Endangers the beach
Causes erosion
What do Groins do for people who live on the beach?
Helps people not lose their houses from erosion
Stops erosion
Helps stop erosion
Increases the amount of erosion further along the beach
What is the definition of a spring tide?
A tide with the greatest difference between low and high tides
A tide with the least difference between low and high tides
A tide with no difference between low and high tides
A tide with even difference between low and high tides
What is the definition of a neap tide?
A tide with the least difference between low and high tides
A tide with the most difference between low and high tides
A tide with even difference between low and high tides
A tide that has no difference between low and high tides
How often do two high and two low tides occur in most places?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Every other day
What is a submersible?
An underwater vehicle that resists pressure
An underwater vehicle
A boat that can go underwater
A smaller submarine
How many grams of salt is in one kilogram of ocean water?
35 grams of salt
19 grams of salt
5 grams of salt
27 grams of salt
What is the definition of salinity?
The total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water
The amount of salt in the ocean
The total amount of salt in a lake
The total amount of dissolved salts in the ocean
About what percentage of the ions in ocean water are chloride and sodium?
85%
96%
13%
55%
What large rivers have a lower salinity?
Mississippi River
Columbia River
Nile River
Missouri River
What two gases do ocean organisms use?
Carbon dioxide and oxygen
Dioxide and oxygen
Carbon and oxygen
Dioxide and carbon
What is the average ocean depth?
3.8 km
3.5 km
4.0 km
2.8 km
Where does light stop reaching in the ocean?
Below 200 meters
Below 200 kilometers
Below 100 meters
Below 250 meters
What is the temperature in the deep zone?
3.5 degrees celcius
4 degrees celcius
1 degrees celcius
25 degrees fahrenheit
What decreases as you descend into the ocean?
The temperature decreases
The temperature increases
The pressure decreases
The pressure increases
What increases when you go deeper into the ocean?
The pressure increases
The pressure decreases
The temperature increases
The temperature decreases
What is the definition of climate?
The temperature over a long period of time
The weather of a specific area
The current temperature
The weather of a surrounding area
What is the definition of Upwelling?
The movement of cold water from the deep ocean
The movement of waves
The amount of rising water in an area
The increase of rising water over a period of time
What is the definition of a tide?
The rising and falling of the sea
The amount of waves in the sea
The amount of water in an area
The sudden increase of water in a lake or ocean
What is the definition of a current?
A large stream of moving water
The movement of water
The ripples in the water
The direction water is moving in
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The effect of Earth's rotation depending on the direction of winds and currents
The effect wind and currents have on the ocean
The process of winds increasing the amount of currents
The process of currents effecting how cold or warm the wind is
What does a surface current do?
They affect the upper layer of water in the ocean
They affect the distance currents travel
They affect all layers of water in the ocean
The affect the distance and how long currents travel
What is El Niño?
An abnormal climate event
A island the changes climate very often
A big rockwall made to stop erosion
A lake with extreme weather conditions
Where did deadly strings of tornadoes occur?
Florida
Georgia
California
Virgina
What are deep currents?
Deep currents are currents that happen in the lower layer of the ocean
Deep currents are currents that are caused from movement deep underwater
Deep currents are currents that are caused from high deep sea activity
Deep currents are currents that help determine the depth of a current
What do deep currents do?
They move and mix water around the world
They provide information of a currents depth
They move water deep under the sea
They cause upwelling
What does Upwelling do?
It bring nutrients from the deep layers of the water
It moves and mixs water under the ocean
It brings mixed water up to the top layer of the ocean
It brings up a large variant of organisms to the top layer of the ocean
Salinity can be higher near the poles
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