HW 12 Chpt 13 Flashcards
What is a land area up to several kilometers wide in which the landscape and local climate are influenced by proximity to the ocean?
Coast
A definable band of flowing water within a larger body of water is also known as what?
Current
What is a large surface currents that carry water entirely around the margin of an ocean?
gyre
The generally twice-daily rise and fall of the sea surface is known as what?
Tide
Tide-generating forces are caused by what?
Gravitational pull of the moon and sun, and centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the earth-Moon system around its center of mass.
What are wave trains?
A group of waves traveling together
Waves that come from the interaction between moving air and the surface of the ocean are what?
Wind driven waves
When gravity draws the water back down the slope, what is it known as?
Backwatch
When waves approaching the shore are orientated toward at an angle to the shore, they undergo bending, or:
Wave refraction
Swash is the movement of water toward the shore.
True
Overwhelming ______ can disrupt fishing, tourism, and sicken people.
algal blooms
What results from farm fertilizers that rivers have carried to the sea that stimulate harmful algal blooms?
Dead zones
