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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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• A wave is the up-and-down movement of surface water.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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Catch a Wave
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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• Surface waves are caused by wind pushing against the surface of the water.
• Waves constantly affect the shoreline. Even gentle waves weather and erode rock and transport sand.
• Powerful hurricane winds produce much larger waves, which can cause a storm surge, or an unusually high water level.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Catch a Wave
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• Energy in waves can be converted into electrical energy.
• This electrical energy can provide a steady source of electricity, since wave motion never stops.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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• An ocean current is a steady flow of water in a regular pattern in the ocean.
• Steady winds• temperature • water salinity• the shape of both
ocean floor and shoreline.
• play a role in driving currents.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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• Ocean currents can have predictable effects.
• For example, the Gulf Stream is warm Atlantic Ocean water that runs south to north along the eastern coast of North America.
• The warm Gulf Stream helps make weather in Europe warmer than in other places that are as far north.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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• Water steadily flowing from the shore against incoming waves is called a rip current.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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• Sometimes, water in the South Pacific gets unusually warm, producing a climate pattern called El Niño.
• An El Niño season disrupts normal weather patterns, causing extreme weather, such as droughts and flooding throughout the world.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Go with the Flow
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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• The water level of the ocean rises and falls in a cycle called a tide.
• Tides are caused by the “pull” of the sun and moon on Earth’s oceans.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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• The moon’s gravity pulls on Earth, resulting in two bulges forming in Earth’s oceans.
• The higher water level in the bulges produces a high tide. The lower water level, or low tide, occurs between the bulges.
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The Turning Tides
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• When Earth, the sun, and the moon are in a straight line, their combined gravity causes the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.
• When the sun, Earth, and the moon are positioned in an “L” shape, the difference between the levels of high tide and low tide is the smallest.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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• The relative positions of the sun, moon, and Earth affect the heights of tides.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
The Turning Tides
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Changing Shorelines
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• Land at the edge of the ocean is called shore.
• Waves and ocean currents carry sand to and away from the shore. The same wind that drives the waves also causes rocks and cliffs to weather.
• The ocean can carry sand from beaches in a short time. A big storm can erode a beach in a day.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Changing Shorelines
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• People can restore the beach by replacing and stabilizing the sand and by building structures.
• A jetty is a structure, often made of piles of rock, that a current cannot move.
• Jetties preserve beaches and keep sand from accumulating and making waterways too shallow for boats.
Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
Changing Shorelines
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
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Unit 11 Lesson 2 How Does Ocean Water Move?
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