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What ocean motion occurs when a wave strikes the bottom of the ocean?
A breaker wave, a surf.
What is a firm ridge of sand that appears off the main shoreline due to ocean wave weathering?
Sandbar
A firm ridge of sand that appears off the main shoreline due to ocean wave weathering is called a?
sandbar
What is a breaker in the ocean?
As an ocean wave approaches the shallow water near a shoreline, it begins to lose energy because of friction with the ocean bottom. This causes the wave to slow down. As the wave becomes shallower, incoming wave crests gradually catch up with the slower wave crests ahead resulting in a wavelength that decreases from crest-to-crest. The incoming wave becomes higher, steeper, and unstable, and their crests collapse forward. Breakers, as seen in the picture, are collapsing waves. The motion of wave crests also influences the formation of a breaker. Breakers are less affected by friction than wave troughs and thus overrun the troughs. The collapsing crests of breakers moving at high speeds toward shore play a major role in shaping shorelines.
Before a tsunami the ocean appears that it is at low tide?
True... The Tsunami 'draws in' water - which makes the local ocean appear to vanish... before the wave hits the shoreline
How are beach erosion made?
beach erosion is caused by the movement of ocean currents along the shoreline, and by wave action. As an ocean current moves parallel to the shore, it will carry away sediment. Wave action also does this, kind of similarly to currents.
In Animal Crossing what does a wave breaker do?
The wave breaker is just a furniture item.
What causes the shoreline to change?
What causes the shoreline to change well that's and easy question you might not see it and but when at night the waves come through and back so from the ocean the more water that comes from there the bigger the wave the bigger the shroreline
What is homonym of wave?
the homonym for wave is waive
Why a wave changes in the surf zone?
the bottom of the ocean is closer and the wave hit the bottom and they become shorter increasing the wave lenght
How does refraction cause wave crests to move when the wave approach the shore?
nearly parallel to the shoreline
What shoreline features are produced by wave erosion?
Sea Cave
