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