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Winds and Waves
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How are waves Created? Based on this movie and clip how were these waves made? __________ Can waves be made in any other way? ________ How?_____________________
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How are waves created? 1. are where high winds and strong currents create a. Some have been recorded at 115 feet high.
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How are waves Created? 2., these are called : created by Earth quakes, volcanoes and.
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2004 Tsunami Describe a Tsunami: _____________________________ After the video clip of a Tsunami Does your description change? If yes how so? ______________________________ ____________________________
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Tsunami Waves Tsunami waves resemble normal sea waves, because their. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly.
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Tsunami Yes/No Was the movie depicting a Tsunami wave?_____ What type of wave was it?__________
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Types of Wind Driven Waves The way each wave breaks depends: ___________________________ __________________________.
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Wind driven waves Height of the wave driven is determined by wind speeds. Hurricane Sandy
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What do waves do? http://abclocal.go.com/wab c/video?id=7358667 http://abclocal.go.com/wab c/video?id=7358667 After the video: Describe what effect waves have. ___________________________ ___________________________
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Wave Action What happened based on wave action : _________
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Not Wave Action South Shore beaches are a ___________________________ ___________________________
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Not Wave Action The North Shore beaches are ____________________________ ___________________________
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Wave Action on Rocky Shores ______ ______
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Wave Action on Sandy Shores _____________________________ Fire Island
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Wave Action on Sandy Shores _______ build or remove sand. In 1970 we (LI) built ________ to combat this. Has this helped? (Use the picture below to help)
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Answer jetties do not work. The result is that sand is deposited on the _________side, depriving the ____________ side of sand. Fixing long Island beaches http://www.myfoxny.com/d pp/good_day_ny/long- island-beach-erosion- 20100401 http://www.myfoxny.com/d pp/good_day_ny/long- island-beach-erosion- 20100401
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Why is it important to fix our beaches? People vs animals Basking shark washed up on Babylon beach summer of 2009
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What lives by/on the beach? _________________: _________ migrate in Jan-April on our Beaches _________________________
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___________ Piping Plover Common Tern Others include: Herons, Osprey, Egrets, Shore Birds Purple Sandpipers, Snow Bunting, Snowy Owl: Smiths Point
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_____________ Fiddler Crabs Horseshoe Crab Worms living In the sand
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Invertebrates: _ _ _ _ ________ _
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Parts of the “beach” Because of the daily _______ and _______ of the tides each day, there are clear differences in horizontal sections of beach from the __________________ ___________________________
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Parts of the “beach” Different Zones _______________: This zone gets occasional wave action _____________________: This zone is systematically washed by the advancing and retreating tides. ___________________: This zone is rarely exposed to the air. Sand within it is constantly moving due to wave action.
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Parts of the “beach” The ______________ of different “beach” areas are important because they _________ what organisms can __________ in that section or zone of the shoreline.,
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