Waves Earth and Space

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