Romine test Chapter 21

A huge cirlce of moving ocean water

• Gyre

• tide

• crest

a horizontal movement of water in a well-defined pattern, such as a river stream

• current

• crest

• gravity

the periodic rise and fall of the water level in oceans

• tide

• gulf stream

• breaker

a wave formed when wind blows its crest off

• whitecap

• refraction

• fetch

the bending of ocean waves toward the coastline

• refraction

• gyre

• tide

the difference in levels of ocean water at high tide and low tide

• tidal range

• gravity

• crest

periodic up and down movement of water

• wave

• periodic table

• current

the distance wind can blow across open water

• fetch

• gulf stream

• Alabama

the movement if water toward and away from the coast

• tidal current

• warm current

• hot current

a foamy mass of water created when the top of a wave falls over

• breaker

• chop

• gravity