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What is the crest of a wave?The top of a wave.
What is the trough of a wave?The bottom of a wave.
What is the tidal range?The difference in high tide and low tide.
What is a tide?The periodical change in the sea level.
What is a breaker wave?When the bottom of a wave outruns the top of a wave.
What is a reef ?A colony of corals.
What is a benthos?An animal that lives on the bottom of the ocean floor.
What are plankton ?Animals that drift on the ocean surface?
What is a beach?Deposits that are deposited parallel to the shore ?
What is a basin?A pit or a valley that water settled in.
What is a current that is not caused by wind?Density Current
What causes surface currents?Wind
What percentage is salt in ocean water?3.5%
What are waves?.Movements in water that constantly rise and fall.
What is the difference in tides?Tidal Range
Which way do particles in a wave move?In a circular pattern.
The horizontal distance within 2 waves is the?Wave length.
The vertical distance from the trough and crest of a wave is the?Wave height.
What are 3 things that affect the height of a wave?Length of time the wind blows,and the speed and distance the wind blows.
Which way does the energy in a wave move?Forward


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