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The wavelength decreases
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Swell "feels" bottom (half the wavelength), circular water particles change to flattened eclipses. Wavelength slows down, but period remains the same, wave becomes too high for its wavelength. Crest moves ahead of the base b/c of a 3:4 ratio of wave height to water depth and breaks.
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Swell "feels" bottom (half the wavelength), circular water particles change to flattened eclipses. Wavelength slows down, but period remains the same, wave becomes too high for its wavelength. Crest moves ahead of the base b/c of a 3:4 ratio of wave height to water depth and breaks.
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∙ 8y agoAs waves approach the shore, interaction with the sea floor slows the waves down and the crests of the waves bunch up. They increase in height as the energy in each wave compresses into a shorter horizontal distance, but the period of the wave does not change. Eventually, the waves break.
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∙ 9y agoSwell "feels" bottom (half the wavelength), circular water particles change to flattened eclipses. Wavelength slows down, but period remains the same, wave becomes too high for its wavelength. Crest moves ahead of the base b/c of a 3:4 ratio of wave height to water depth and breaks.
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The distance between crests decreases
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∙ 6y agoThe height increases
How do waves even out the shoreline?
Waves even out a shoreline by eroding it.The waves coming to shore gradually change direction, as different parts of the wave begins to drag the bottom.The energy of the wave is concentrated on headlands, part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.As waves erode the headlands the shoreline will eventually even out.Tee Hee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ___------ -/---- ----\/--- --- \------------ ---- --
Is longshore drift the cause or effect of a longshore current?
Angled waves create a current that runs parallel to the coatline. As waves repeatedly hit the beach, some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current.
How does waves cause erosion?
Waves are energy carried by the water, and this energy pounds away at rocks on the shore, eventually wearing them down. Sediment is carried back into the water by the receding waves. As the waves come to shore again, the sediment acts like sandpaper, slowly wearing away at the shoreline.
What does Geosat measure?
a.the height of the ocean b. the change in the oceans land forms c.the direction and speed of the oceans currents or d.the velocity of the waves hitting the shore
What changes occur in a wave as it approaches shore?
It is a process known as shoaling. When waves feel the bottom they slow down and decrease their wavelength but the period of the waves does not change. The height of the wave will steadily increase until the wave becomes unstable and breaks near the beach.
Is it true that waves change direction as they approach Shore because of drag?
No
What happens to wavelengths as waves approach shore?
they get shorter
What happens to waves as they slow down and approach shore?
it keeps on slowing down and hitsthe shore.
Would waves approach the shore in the same manner if the shoreline was gradual or very steep?
no
What causes waves to break as they approach shore?
the water becoming gradually more shallow..
How does refraction cause wave crests to move when the waves approach the shore?
nearly parallel to the shoreline
How does the refraction cause wave crest to move the waves approach shore?
nearly parallel to the shoreline
What can we do to stop the waves taking the sand away?
Waves constantly change the look of the shore, but you can stop the waves from moving the sand by creating a rock wall, however this will effect the shore furthur up
Why do waves increase in height as they approach the shore?
The waves begin to interact with the ocean floor. The same mass of water runs into shallower and shallower water making the height of the wave increase.
I need another way of saying waves crashing in the shore?
The waves pounding against the shoreline. The waves colliding with the shore. The waves breaking upon the beach.
Do waves hit the shore 26 times per minute?
Waves hit the shore many times per minute, but it varies so greatly. The wind changing can result in a change of this number. Any storms out in the ocean can change it as well.
How do waves even out the shoreline?
Waves even out a shoreline by eroding it.The waves coming to shore gradually change direction, as different parts of the wave begins to drag the bottom.The energy of the wave is concentrated on headlands, part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.As waves erode the headlands the shoreline will eventually even out.Tee Hee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ___------ -/---- ----\/--- --- \------------ ---- --
