1. Special Waves

2. A wave is a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.

3. A Tsunami is a large wave that is formed by earthquakes.

7. A rip current is a strong, narrow surface current flowing outward from a shore that results from the return flow of waves and wind-driven water.

8. Rip Current

10. Draw a rip current

11. Undertow is the water rushing back to the ocean after a wave crashes at shore.

12. Undertow may be strong enough to knock a person off their feet.

13. A long shore current is an ocean current that travels parallel to the shore.

14. Long Shore Current

16. Draw a long-shore current

17. A storm surge occurs when wind pushes a large mass of water to shore during a hurricane.

18. Storm Surge

19. Storm Surge

20. Storm Surge

21. Vocabulary

22. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore
Wave

23. a body of water moving in a definite direction
current

24. the alternate rising and falling of the sea due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
Tide

25. the ability to do work. Energy is how things change and move.

26. the measure of the amount of dissolved salt contained in water.
Salinity

27. the relative heaviness of objects, measured in units of mass per units of volume
Density

28. the movement of water from the surface to greater depths
down welling

29. the vertical movement of deep water up to the surface.
Upwelling

30. Warm ocean current flowing from the Equator along the East Coast of America to England.
Gulfstream

31. the effect tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic weather systems.
Coriolis Effect

32. Warm water flowing from the Southwest Pacific towards South America and then continental deflection forces the warm water to flow north along the coast of Mexico and the U.S.A. This warm water changes the climate of the western coast of South and North America.
El Nino