Ch 6 Study Guide
CHAPTER 6 STUDY GUIDE1. How does temperature and salinity effect deep currents?2. Explain how currents can turn over when traveling.3. Explain the 3 factors that affect surface currents.4. If you lived in California at the 40 degree North latitude line and your parents lived in New York at the same latitude line, how would your climates differ due to the currents traveling along the coast?5. Draw a diagram to show the Earth, moon, and sun during a spring tide and a neap tide.6. Draw a wave and label the crest, trough, wave length, wave height, rest point, and amplitude.7. What is the difference between a storm surge and a tsunami?8. What is happening to the Earth during a high and low tide?9. What is the difference between a break and a whitecap?10. Does a wave actually move across the ocean? Why or why not?11. What happens to the wave height when a wave comes near the shore?12. When is the tidal range the greatest? During the spring or neap tide?13. What did you learn from the Timing the Tides activity? Explain your answer.14. If the moon is full tonight, when will the next neap tide occur?
