Chap 22 Sci Terms
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- fetch
- distance that wind can blow across open water
- crest
- highest point of a wave
- spring tide
- tide with daily maximum daily tidal range during the new and full moons
- wave
- periodic up and down movement of ocean water
- Coriolis Effect
- the deflection of the wind and ocean currents caused by the earths rotation
- neap tide
- tide with minimum daily tidal range that occurs during the first and third quaters of the moon
- rip current
- swift movement of water caused by the return of water to the ocean through underwater sandbeds
- whitecap
- crest if a wave that is blown off by high winds
- undertow
- irregular current that pulls water from a beach back to the ocean
- refraction
- bending of a wave as it reaches shallow water
- tidal range
- difference between the levels of high and low tides at a specific location
- Gulf Stream
- the swift, warm Atlantic current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up the east coast of North America
- surface current
- streamlike movement of water on or near the surface of the ocean
- trough
- lowest point between two wave crest