Chapte 13

Question 1

Tsunami

Answer 1

A wave that forms when a argue volume of ocean water is suddenly moved up and down

Question 2

Storm surge

Answer 2

A local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused by strong winds from a storm,such as a hurricane

Question 3

Tides

Answer 3

Daily movements of ocean water that change the level of the of the oceans surface.

Question 4

Tide range

Answer 4

The difference between levels of ocean water at high tide and low tide

Question 5

Spring tides

Answer 5

Tides that maximum daily tidal range that occur during the new and full moons

Question 6

Neap tides

Answer 6

Tides with minimum daily tidal range that occur during the first and third quarters of the moon

Question 7

Crest

Answer 7

The highest point of a wave

Question 8

Trough

Answer 8

The owes the point of a wave

Question 9

Wave length

Answer 9

The distance between two adjacent wave crests or wave throughs

Question 10

Wave height

Answer 10

The vertical distance between a waves crest and its trough

Question 11

Swells

Answer 11

Rolling waves that move in a steady procession across the ocean.

Question 12

Wave period

Answer 12

The time between the passage of two wave crest or troughs at a fixed point

Question 13

Breaker

Answer 13

A heightened water wave that begins to tumble downward or break upon nearing the shore

Question 14

Surf

Answer 14

A heightened water wave that begins to tumble downward or break upon nearing the shore

Question 15

Whitecaps

Answer 15

A white,foaming wave with a very steep crest that breaks in the open ocean before the wave gets close to the shore

Question 16

Salinity

Answer 16

A measure of the amount of dissolved salts and other solids in a given amount of liquid

Question 17

Thermocline

Answer 17

A layer of water extending from 300m below sea leve

Question 18

Continental shelf

Answer 18

Begins at the shoreline and slopes toward the ocean

Question 19

Continental slope

Answer 19

Begins at the edge of the continental shelf

Question 20

Continental rise

Answer 20

The base of the continental slope

Question 21

Abyssal plain

Answer 21

The board flat portion of the,deep-ocean basin

Question 22

Mid-ocean ridge

Answer 22

Mountain chains formed where tectonic plates pulled apart

Question 23

Rift Valley

Answer 23

Forms between rift zones

Question 24

Seamount

Answer 24

Individual mountains of volcanic material

Question 25

Ocean trenches

Answer 25

Bottomless cracks in the deep ocean basin

Question 26

Surface current

Answer 26

Stream lie, movements

Question 27

Coriolis effect

Answer 27

The curving of moving objects from a straight path

Question 28

Deep current

Answer 28

Stream like movement of ocean water far below the surface

Question 29

Upwelling

Answer 29

Process in which cold,nutrients water from deep ocean rises to the surface and replaces warm surface

Question 30

El Niño

Answer 30

A periodic change in the location of warm cool surfaces in the PO

Question 31

Swells

Answer 31

Rolling waves that move steady procession across the ocean