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Date:____________
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Waves Web Quest
The Anatomy of a Wave:
Click on the following link Anatomy of a wave, then Click on the definition button and observe the animation.
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the trough of a wave?
2. What is the crest of a wave?
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3. What is wave height?
4. What is wave length?
Building a wave
Click the following link to view an interactive on the variables that effect wave height: Building a wave
5. What are the three factors that determine wave height?
6. Explain what is meant by wind fetch?
7. What is meant by wind duration?
8. Will a brief, strong gust of wind be able to produce a large wave?
9. Use the wave generator to determine which of the three variables has the greatest effect on wave height.
Provide evidence by completing the table below.
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Wind Speed
Fetch
Duration
Wave Height
10. Using your results from the table, which of the variables had the greatest effect on wave height?
Types of waves: Breakers
Use the following link to view animations of waves breaking. types of waves
11. Match to slope of the beach to the wave it will produce.
_____________ Gentle Sloping Beach
A. Plunging breaker
_____________ Moderate sloping beach
B. B. Surging breaker
_____________ Steep sloping beach
C. C. Spilling breaker
12. As the wave moves into shallow water what happens to the . . . (Read the answers to the questions on the
website)
A. Wave height _________________________________________________________
B. Base of the wave ______________________________________________________
C. Crest of the wave ______________________________________________________
Types of waves: Rouge waves
Click and read the information contained in the following link: Rouge waves. For an animation of how rouge waves from
click here
Answer the questions below:
13. What are rouge waves?
14. What causes a rogue wave?
15. What is the difference between rouge waves and tsunamis?
Types of waves: Tsunamis
Click and go through the information contained in the following link: Tsunami. You can click here to see how a tsunami
spreads.
Answer the questions below:
16. What is tsunami?
17. What causes Tsunamis?
18. Out in the open ocean are tsunamis Large or small?
19. What happens to a Tsunamis speed and height as they move closer to land?