Oceans

Question 1

What is the distance of a wave?

Answer 1

The distance from crest to crest, trough to trough, or from a point in one wave cycle to the corresponding point on the next adjacent wave cycle

Question 2

Swash

Answer 2

The movement of a breaking wave up a beach

Question 3

Backwash

Answer 3

The return flow of a wave back towards the sea

Question 4

Constructive wave

Answer 4

Low frequency 6-8 per minute, strong wash pushes material up the beach, emphasis on deposition

Question 5

Where does deposition occur?

Answer 5

Waves carry sediment, the currents deposit the sediment near land, creating beaches

Question 6

Spit

Answer 6

Extended stretch of beach material that projects out to sea and is joined to the main land at one end

Question 7

Stack

Answer 7

Is geological land form consisting of a steep and often vertical column of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by erosion

Question 8

What are waves created by?

Answer 8

The wind cause waves on the surface of the ocean. The wind transfers some of its energy to the water through fiction between air molecules and the water molecules

Question 9

Tombolo

Answer 9

A bar of sand or shingle joining an island in the mainland

Question 10

What is a RAMSAR wetland?

Answer 10

A landing place for migratory birds