| A | B |
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| surface current | a streamlike movement of water that occurs at or near the surface of the ocean |
| Coriolis Effect | the curving of moving objects from a straight path due to the Earth's rotation |
| deep current | a streamlike movement of ocean water far below the surface (density and temp) |
| upwelling | the process in which cold nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean rises to the surface and replaces warm surface water |
| crest | the highest point of a wave |
| trough | the lowest point of a wave |
| wavelenth | the distance between two adjacent wave crests or wave troughs |
| wave height | the vertical distanve between a wave's crest and its trough |
| wave period | the time it takes for two wave crests (or troughs) to pass a fixed point |
| breaker | a heightened water wave that begins to tumble downward, or break, upon nearing the shore |
