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Chapter 11 Water, Weather and Climate
Question | Answer |
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white caps | white foamy tops found on waves |
breakers | formed when waves reach the shore |
undertow | the water that begins to move back along ocean floor when wave strikes the beach |
tsunami | series of waves spreading rapidly outward in all directions from a disturbance on ocean floor |
plankton | tiny organisms which are the basic food of all sea life |
coral | small animals that live in clear sunlit ocean water |
coral reef | when coral die they leave their shells and new colonies of coral grow on top and eventually this accumulation of shells forms a reef |
atoll | when corals form a narrow circular ring around a volcanic cone or seamount |