Oceanography14
Chapter 14 Section 1&2
Terms
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- deep water waves
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- continental deflection
- currents change directions when the meet a continent
- trough
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- whitecaps
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- shallow water waves
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- surface current
- a streamlike movement of water at or near the ocean's surface
- deep currents
- a streamlike movement of ocean water far below the surface
- wavelength
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- wave height
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- swells
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- tsunami
- a wave that forms when a large volume of ocean water is suddenly moved up and down
- crest
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- coriolis effect
- the curving of moving objects from a straight path due to the Earth's rotation
- two parts of a wave
- crest and trough
- breakers
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- density and water
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- storm surge
- a local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused by strong winds from a storm, such as a hurricane
- climate and currents
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