Question | Answer |
What is the ocean shore zone? | The area where the ocean meets the land. |
What can you find in the ocean shore zone? | Beach's, Barrier islands, estuaries, and inlets |
What are beaches? | Shore lines made of sand |
Tides can bring in what at high tide? | Shells and ocean sediment |
What are islands? | Pieces of land surrounded by water |
Barrier islands function to? | Protect the mainland From the effects of waves on its shore's |
What changes when waves deposit sand on barrier islands beaches? | Change its shape |
What are estuaries? | The area where the river meets the ocean |
What water do estuaries have? | Brackish water |
What brings sediment and sea life to the estuaries? | High tides |
What are inlets? | Water filled spaces between barrier islands |
AS the tides change the inlets will? | Change |
What can change an inlet opening? | Currents and storms |
What are currents? | On going movement of water |
What creates currents? | Wind moving across the surface of the water |
How many directions do currents move in? | 1 |
What are wave's? | The repeated movement of water |
What do all waves have? | Crest and trough |
Most ocean waves are caused by? | Winds that are blown across the surface of the water |
A wave change's shape when it? | reaches shore |
As the top of the wave curls over it turns into a? | breaker |
What are tides? | The regular rise and fall of water in the ocean and sea's |
What are tides caused by? | The pull of moons gravity on earth as the moon moves in relation to the earth. |
High tide's occur when? | Water level is at highest point. |
Low tide's occur when? | Water level is at lowest point |
Spring tide's occur when? | The moon and sun line up and pull in the same direction. |
Neap tide's occur when? | When the moon and sun pull in different direction's and their pulls cancel out each other |