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What is it called when a hurricane causes the water of the ocean to rise much higher than usual?
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The storm surge.
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A major earhquake with an epiccenter on the ocean floor sometimes causes a gaint waved called aan?
Tsunami
What effects does the surface-wind pattern have on the circulation of the oceans?
The movement of wind over the surface of the ocean causes friction. The wind drags the ocean surface with it, making the pattern called surface-ocean wind-drift currents.
What happens when a deep-water wave strikes the bottom of the ocean?
waves get slower and higher then they break
What is study of ocean called?
The study of the ocean is Oceanography. The study of ocean life would be Marine Biology.
What are the levels of the ocean called?
The continental shelf, continental slop and the ocean floor
What is it called when a hurricane causes the water in the ocean to rise higher than usual?
surge tide
What is a hurricane called that forms over the Atlantic Ocean?
A hurricane over the Atlantic Ocean is simply called a hurricane.
What is a hurricane that forms over the Indian Ocean?
A hurricane that forms over the Indian ocean is called a cyclone.
What is an Atlantic ocean storm called?
hurricane
What have scientists linked to increased hurricane strength?
higher ocean temp in the tropics
Does a hurricane or tornado or blizard or freezng rain which one causes the most flooding near an ocean.?
A hurricane causes coastal flooding. None of the other are directly related to flooding at all.
What are powerful rotating storms in the pacific ocean called?
A Hurricane or a Typhoon or a Cyclone.
When and where was the wort hurricane in the world?
The worst hurricane in the world was the Bhola Cyclone (a hurricane in the Indian Ocean is called a cyclone), which struck Bangladesh in 1970.
Is hurricane Igor the third biggest hurricane in history?
It is the biggest in the history of the Atlantic Ocean, or at least is tied for first with Hurricane Olga, but larger hurricanes, or typhoons as they are called there, have been recorded in the western Pacific Ocean.
Which type of storm causes the most flooding in areas located near an ocean coastline and why?
A Hurricane, because a Hurricane starts on water then off of the water into the land.
What causes a group of thunderstorms to become hurricane?
The thunderstorm might go down and turn into a tornado and then when it hits the ocean it might turn into a hurricane
How can a hurricane might be affected if the temperature in the gulf of Mexico are higher than in the Atlantic ocean?
The hurricane in question would probably get stronger if it enters the Gulf of Mexico.
