Problem 1
Name the major ocean basins and give their locations.
Problem 5
Explain why two high tides occur every day, even though the Moon lies directly above any portion of Earth only once a day.
Problem 6
Explain the difference between spring and neap tides.
Problem 8
Draw a picture of a wave and label the crest, the trough, the wavelength, and the wave height.
Problem 10
What is a storm surge and how does it form?
Problem 11
Explain the Coriolis effect. What is a gyre?
Problem 12
What drives surface currents, deep-sea currents, tidal currents, and longshore currents?
Problem 13
What is Ekman transport? How does it interact with surface winds and the Coriolis effect to produce the currents that we observe in the deep ocean.
Problem 16
What is refraction? How does it affect coastal crosion?
Problem 17
How is a tidal current different from a longshore current?
