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Oceanography Chapter 10 Study Guide

This document contains 30 questions about ocean waves and wave-related phenomena including: 1. Questions about fully developed seas, pycnoclines, tsunamis, wave properties, storm surge, wave types ordered from smallest to longest wavelength, orbital water motion, wave height, deep water waves, wave transmission across ocean basins, wave refraction and diffraction, deep and shallow water waves, types of waves including capillary, wind, seiche, tsunami and tidal waves, factors that make large wind waves, the devastating impacts of the 2004 Sumatran and 2011 Japan tsunamis, restoring forces for different wave types, wind-driven surface currents, disturbing force for wind waves, calculating wave properties from a diagram

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Oceanography Chapter 10 Study Guide

This document contains 30 questions about ocean waves and wave-related phenomena including: 1. Questions about fully developed seas, pycnoclines, tsunamis, wave properties, storm surge, wave types ordered from smallest to longest wavelength, orbital water motion, wave height, deep water waves, wave transmission across ocean basins, wave refraction and diffraction, deep and shallow water waves, types of waves including capillary, wind, seiche, tsunami and tidal waves, factors that make large wind waves, the devastating impacts of the 2004 Sumatran and 2011 Japan tsunamis, restoring forces for different wave types, wind-driven surface currents, disturbing force for wind waves, calculating wave properties from a diagram

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1. What is a fully developed sea?

2 What is a pycnocline?
3. How is a tsunami generated?
4. What is a dangerous consequence of Tsunamis that attracts people to explore further offshore.
5. What is wave period, wavelength, waveheight, period, frequency?
6. The abrupt bulge of water driven ashore by what type of storm is called storm surge?
7. How do you arrange wave types in order from smallest to longest wavelength?
8. Describe how water moves in orbital waves?
9. The vertical distance between a successive wave crest and wave trough is best described as what?
10. A wind wave of 30-meter wavelength will be considered a deep-water wave if it is passing through
water that is greater than what depth?
11. The wave you surf on in California may have come from the middle of the Pacific. What has been
transmitted across the ocean basin?
12. Define and understand wave refraction and diffraction.
13. Be able to determine deep water and shallow water waves.
14. Define capillary, wind, seiche, tsunami, and tidal waves.
15. What are the factors necessary to make really large wind waves?
16. How devastating was the Sumatran Tsunami of 2004? Japan Tsunami of 2011?
17. What is the restoring force for each type of waves?
18. What accounts for the movement of wind-driven surface currents?
19.Wind is the disturbing force for what type of waves?
20. Please refer to the diagram drawn below to answer what the wave height, wavelength, and if period
is given what the wave velocity would be.

20 ft

4 ft

21. What is the relationship between the wavelength and its velocity.
22. Using the table below be able to predict wave height give wind speed, fetch and wind duration.

23. What is a wave train?


24. How fast does a wave train move with respect to the individual waves in the train?
25. What is the ratio that waves will break in the open ocean?
26. What is swell?
27. How was the Great wave of 112 ft observed aboard the USS Ramapo measured?
28. Rogue waves are generated as a result of what?
29. Why is it that waves observed breaking on the shoreline appear as if they are breaking parallel to
the shoreline?

30. What does the above picture depict?

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