Earth Science Chapter 25

Question 1

What is a characteristic of the Antarctic bottom water?

Answer 1

High density

Question 2

Waves strike the coastline head on instead of at an angle as a result of what?

Answer 2

Refraction

Question 3

A vast area of calm, warm water in them North Atlantic is the what

Answer 3

Sargasso Sea

Question 4

Two identical points on consecutive waves pass a given point in one what?

Answer 4

Wave period

Question 5

Factors that determine the size of a wave are wind speed, fetch and what

Answer 5

The length of time the wind blows

Question 6

What is the distance that wind blows across an area across the sea to generate waves

Answer 6

Fetch

Question 7

What is the major cause of tides

Answer 7

the gravitational pull of the moon on earth and its waters

Question 8

The title current that flows toward the ocean is called what

Answer 8

Ebtide

Question 9

Deep currents are caused by what

Answer 9

Differences in density of ocean water

Question 10

The highest point of a wave is its what

The lowest wave is the

Answer 10

Crest

trough

Question 11

The force that causes tides is what

Answer 11

Gravity

Question 12

The word for the curving of the paths for ocean currents and winds due to earth rotation is what?

Answer 12

Coroilis effect

Question 13

The affect of wind energy on waves is what

Answer 13

It makes waves larger

Question 14

Why are sandbars formed

Answer 14

Longshore currents

Question 15

Very large waves are usually the result of what

Answer 15

A long fetch

Question 16

Three factors that affect surface currents are what

Answer 16

Earth’s rotation, air, and the location of the continents

Question 17

caused by an earthquake on the ocean floor, a volcanic eruption, or an underwater landslide

Answer 17

Tsunami

Question 18

horizontal movement of ocean water near or at the surface, caused by wind

Answer 18

Surface current

Question 19

occurs in water as a periodic up-and-down movement

Answer 19

Wave

Question 20

forms when the top of a wave topples over

Answer 20

Breaker

Question 21

Which of the following causes gyres to form?

Answer 21

Coriolis effect

Question 22

forms when winds blow off the crest of a wave

Answer 22

Whitecap

Question 23

tide that occurs during the full moon and new moon

Answer 23

Spring tide

Question 24

huge circles of moving water

Answer 24

Gyre

Question 25

movement of water toward and away from the coast

Answer 25

Tidal current

Question 26

the difference of levels of ocean water at high tide

Answer 26

Tidal range

Question 27

the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave.

Answer 27

Wave length

Question 28

the lowest point between two crests

Answer 28

Trough

Question 29

the state of the tide when it is turning, especially at low tide. Ebtide Napat tide

Answer 29

Slack water

Question 30

Which of the following factors does not control the movement of surface currents

Answer 30

Salinity

Question 31

As water carried onto a beach by breaking waves is pulled back to deeper water and an irregular wave is formed is what

Answer 31

Underto

Question 32

If high tide is at four p.m today what time will hytide be tomorrow

Answer 32

4:50

Question 33

Which of the following of water of large breakers returns to the ocean of channels that cut through sandbars

Answer 33

Rift current