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Kids learn about ocean waves and currents including what causes them, how they impact the global climate, winds, and fun facts.
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Kids take a quiz on Earth Science: Ocean Waves and Currents....
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2 Φεβ 2024 · The sun has extremely important influences on our planet: It drives weather, ocean currents, seasons, and climate, and makes plant life possible through photosynthesis. Without the sun’s heat and light, life on Earth would not exist.
20 Σεπ 2023 · A 5% chance of encountering a single wave higher than 35 ft. (11 m) among every 200 waves that pass in about 30 minutes. A 5% chance of encountering a single wave higher than 40 ft. (12 m) among every 2,600 waves that pass in about five hours.
Ocean waves are generated by three natural causes: wind, seismic disturbances, and gravitational attraction of the sun and moon. While a wave may move past a point, the water making up the wave will show no net movement. The water particles in a wave actually tend to move in circles.
2 Φεβ 2024 · The sun has extremely important influences on our planet: It drives weather, ocean currents, seasons, and climate, and makes plant life possible through photosynthesis. Grades. 5 - 12+. Subjects. Biology, Earth Science, Astronomy, Physics. Photograph. Sun Blasts a M6.6 Flare.
The greatest ocean waves of all—with a period of 12 hours and 25 minutes and a wave length of half the circumference of the earth — these colossal oceanic bulges travel around the world at up to 700 or 800 miles per hour.
The sun is the real star of the show—literally! The closest star to Earth, it’s the source of all the heat and light that makes flowers bloom, songbirds croon, and sunbathers swoon. Life...
