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