Across
- 2. gravitational of the sun produces a tide.
- 4. salinity/salt
- 7. wave is breaking
- 8. ____ high tides and ____ low tides on most coast everyday.
- 11. Northern hemisphere the ocean gyres move _____
- 13. movement of dense, cold, salt water from the abyssal regions of the surface.
- 17. currents set in motion by winds.
- 20. the length of the wave.
- 21. neap tides happen at ____ moon and _____ moon.
- 23. side of the earth facing the moon that the ocean continually tries to flow towards the moon because of it's gravitational pull.
- 24. gravity works with moons to form a higher than usual tide.
- 26. a tide during the first and third quarter moon when there is the least difference between high and low water.
- 27. used in to measure the height of local sea level.
- 28. the change of direction with depth.
Down
- 1. Southern hemisphere the ocean gyres move _____
- 3. deep ocean currents are driven by differences in the water's density which is contolled by termperature and salinity.
- 5. the deepest depth below the oceans surface that is affected by the waves passage.
- 6. currents forming great circling flows.
- 8. bottom of the wave.
- 9. ocean surface currents are affected by the rotation of the earth.
- 10. the vertical distance between the top and the bottom of the wave.
- 12. flow of sea water
- 14. current when a wave reaches a beach or coastline and generates a current parallel to shore line.
- 15. spring tides happen at ___ moon and ____ moon.
- 16. the time between one wave crest and next.
- 18. water flowing outward from that is narrow.
- 19. daily or twice daily changes in local sea levels.
- 22. top of the wave.
- 25. heat