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