Rip Currents

Are rip currents due to the tides?

How do rip currents form

What causes a seismic sea wave?

Seismic sea waves move at a velocity of ---- miles per hour.

Label of a foreshore and backshore of a beach.
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B___A.
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High Tide
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Low Tide

What is a spit?

What is a Tombolo

What is a bay mouth bar?

Barrier Island?

Erosional features of a shorelie?

Deposional Features of a Shoreline?

Marine terraces form by _____ erosion?

In a series of elevated terraces, the oldest terrace is the ____ one?

Continental margin represent the _______ edges of the continents.

Put Slope, Shelf , and rise in order. Where ocean is above?

The southern california continental borderland is a series of _____ and banks due to ____ faulting.

What processes, other than marine erosion and sedimentation, have modified the continental shelf?

Are continental shelves uniform in width?

The greatest oceanic depth are located in the:

In terms of plate tectonics, sea floor is destroyed in the:

Trenches are called:

In some subduction zones, an _____ bearing plate is sinking beneath a continental bearing plate.

Ocean ridges are sites were sea floor is being:

Ocean ridges are called ________ because the ocean bearing plates are _______ away from the ridge crest/

Submarine canyons are due to:

Are submarine canyons common in California?

Turbidity currents move down slope under the influence of:

Echo sounders give a continuous _____ of the bottom _____.

What is vertical exaggeration?

In order to live coral reefs require:

Three common types of coral reefs:

How does coral atoll form?

Two main types of deep sea sediments are:

Neritic is:

Oceanic is?

Benthonic is?

Planktonic is?

Nektonic is?

Sessile is?

What was the source of the ocean's water?

How old are the oceans?