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What is the possessive noun for ocean?

The possessive form of the noun ocean is ocean's.For example "The ocean's color is predominately blue".


Which body of water does not reach the greek shore?

The body of water that did not reach greek shore is the Atlantic ocean.


If you're at the seashore on a sunny summer day In which directions is the wind blowing why?

The wind will be blowing from the water towards the land. This is because during the day, the ground is heated faster than the water (because it takes a lot of energy to heat water as compared to earth). What results is that the ground is hot, and the water is relatively cool. The air above the hot ground is then heated, whereby it becomes less dense. This results in the air rising. The opposite happens over the water, the air is cooled, and becomes more dense, and falls down towards the water. By the conservation of mass, there must be air replaced at the points where it is moving, and the result is a convection current, which will blow wind from the water towards the shore at sea level.


How does a rip current form?

A rip current forms when waves push water towards the shore, causing it to flow back out to sea in a narrow and fast-moving channel. This can occur due to various factors, such as sandbars or underwater topography that funnels the water outwards. Rip currents can be dangerous for swimmers as they pull them away from the shore.


What are the big waves and abnormally high ocean tides that occur during a typhoon called?

The big waves and abnormally high ocean tides that occur during a typhoon are called storm surges. These storm surges are caused by strong winds and low atmospheric pressure pushing water towards the shore, resulting in flooding and coastal damage.

Related Questions

What are cool breezes during the day caused by differences in the heating and cooling rates of land and water called?

off shore and on shore breezes


What direction does an undertow flow?

An undertow flows away from the shore, toward the open water.


Why do onshore and offshore breezes occur along the coast?

Even in the absence of major wind systems or rain showers, there will still often be a coastal breeze because sunlight heats land surfaces more rapidly than sea surfaces. During the day this generates rising air and a breeze blowing from the sea onto the shore. During the night, the land cools more rapidly so there is sinking air flowing from the shore to the sea. Daytime winds are generally sea breezes and night winds are generally land breezes.


Why are fish from the ocean come near the shore?

Why the ocean is next to the shore is because you need a shore to make a line or border to have a ocean, lake or a pond. Also those are just names given to those places, like house.


Why do you see tides near an ocean shore?

because out in the open ocean it is nearly impossible to tell if it is high or low tide, and tide is the height of water ON the shore.


Water is moved toward shore by a wave true or false?

True. Waves carry water towards the shore by transporting energy from the open ocean to the coastal areas.


How are the shore zone and continental shelf related?

They are related because they are part of the ocean


What ocean lies off floridas eastern shore?

The Atlantic Ocean is on Florida's eastern shore.


When the ocean washes farther up on the shore?

WHEN THE OCEAN WASHES farther up on shore


What is a part of the shore that sticks out in the ocean?

The rocky part of the shore that sticks out in the ocean is called a jetty.


What phrase described the US Colonial belief that settlers had the right and should expand from shore to shore from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

Manifest Destiny describes the US Colonial belief that settlers had the right and should expand from shore to shore, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.


Are storms worse on a shore of the ocean?

they do more damage to the shore