Waves Project:
Step 1: Read the Wave Article #1 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What is a wave?
B) What are the three types of progressive waves?
C) What are the crest, trough, height, wavelength, period, and frequency of a wave?
D) How do wavelength and period relate to a wave's speed?
Step 2: Read the Wave Article #2 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What disturbing forces cause waves?
B) What restoring forces resist waves?
C) What are the differences between deepwater waves and shallow-water waves?
D) What three factors affect the maximum wave size?
E) How can a fully developed sea have waves that are bigger or smaller than the maximum theoretical size?
F) What causes internal waves?
Step 3: Read the Wave Article #3 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What makes a wave break?
B) What happens when a wind wave breaks on shore?
C) How do wave refraction, diffraction, and reflection affect the behavior or waves?
D) What is a standing wave?
Step 4: Read the Wave Article #4 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What causes storm surges?
B) What causes seiches?
C) What causes tsunamis?
D) Why are tsunamis always shallow-water waves?
E) Why don't tsunamis destroy ships in the open sea?
A) What is a wave?
B) What are the three types of progressive waves?
C) What are the crest, trough, height, wavelength, period, and frequency of a wave?
D) How do wavelength and period relate to a wave's speed?
Step 2: Read the Wave Article #2 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What disturbing forces cause waves?
B) What restoring forces resist waves?
C) What are the differences between deepwater waves and shallow-water waves?
D) What three factors affect the maximum wave size?
E) How can a fully developed sea have waves that are bigger or smaller than the maximum theoretical size?
F) What causes internal waves?
Step 3: Read the Wave Article #3 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What makes a wave break?
B) What happens when a wind wave breaks on shore?
C) How do wave refraction, diffraction, and reflection affect the behavior or waves?
D) What is a standing wave?
Step 4: Read the Wave Article #4 (click here) and answer the questions below:
A) What causes storm surges?
B) What causes seiches?
C) What causes tsunamis?
D) Why are tsunamis always shallow-water waves?
E) Why don't tsunamis destroy ships in the open sea?