Exam 10: Waves

What causes a tsunami? Compare the losses due to the Indonesian (2004) and Japan (2011) earthquakes. How could the loss of life and property have been minimized?

What generates internal waves?

What type of wave is categorized as a deep-water wave?

Why does wave refraction occur?

What drives a storm surge ashore?

Why is a storm surge not considered a progressive wave?

What do tsunami warning networks use to monitor the sea surface?

How do wave trains travel? How do they interact with each other?

What is not an important factor for the development of wind waves?

What is the difference between a storm surge and a seiche? What are the behaviors and causes of each?

What causes ocean waves to form?

What is the relative ratio of height to wavelength in a tsunami?

The tsunami that struck northern Japan in March 2011 began when a rupture along a submarine fault uplifted the sea surface by as much as 6 meters.

What is not true of a rogue wave?

The restoring force for capillary waves, like most ocean waves, is gravity.

What type of ocean wave has a disturbing force of sudden changes in atmospheric pressure?

What remains unchanged regardless of depth?

What is a characteristic of a tsunami?

The water mass moving through a seismic sea wave can reach speeds of 760 kilometers per hour.

The destruction of the 2004 tsunami near Indonesia came from a series of waves rather than a single seismic wave.