Currents and Wave Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. Vertical distance between a crest and a trough
  2. 6. Current Current caused by mainly wind patterns
  3. 8. Current powerful narrow flow of water back out to sea type of strong undertow
  4. 10. Wave that crashes on a beach
  5. 13. Distance Surface Current Current that flows near the ocean surface for short distance
  6. 14. Flow of water back toward the sea that may or may not be strong
Down
  1. 1. Lowest Part of a Wave
  2. 2. Highest Part of a wave
  3. 3. Interval of time required for successive crests or troughs to pass a given point
  4. 4. Current that flows deep below the oceans surface and is caused mainly by differences in water density
  5. 5. Horisontal distance between two successive crest and two successive troughs
  6. 6. Surging water on a beach caused by breakers
  7. 7. Stream of moving water below the ocean surface
  8. 9. Disturbance in a medium pulses of energy that move through the water
  9. 11. Shore Current Short distance surface current that tends to flow parallel to the shore line
  10. 12. Long wide wave that is not very high and is usually found far out at sea
  11. 15. Largest of all ocean waves