Waves Earth and Space

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Across
  1. 2. no waves, flat sea surface
  2. 4. sorts waves by period and wavelength
  3. 11. interference resulting in increased wave height
  4. 13. place where high waves are the most common
  5. 14. rounded waves that have left the area that generated them
  6. 15. current parallel to the shore
  7. 17. structures used to reduce longshore or beach drift
  8. 21. focuses wave energy on headlands
  9. 22. water level between the crest and the trough
  10. 23. vertical distance between crest and trough
  11. 27. U.S. navy ship
  12. 28. paws small waves that are also called capillary
Down
  1. 1. breakers that form tubes
  2. 2. speed of the wind
  3. 3. distance between two successive wave crests
  4. 5. shape traced by a water particle as a wave passes
  5. 6. distance the wind blows across the water
  6. 7. breakers on gradual slopes
  7. 8. addition or subtraction of waves
  8. 9. what a wave needs to travel through
  9. 10. a disturbance that travels through a medium
  10. 12. seismic sea wave
  11. 16. direction that persistent winds are arranged
  12. 18. narrow, strong, seaward current perpendicular to the shore
  13. 19. time required to move a distance equal to one wave length
  14. 20. groups of similar waves traveling together
  15. 24. lowest point on a wave
  16. 25. highest point on a wave
  17. 26. speed of a wave with a period of 10 seconds and a length of 40 meters
  18. 29. waves of different heights and wavelengths and directions