ERSC 101 Oceanography Question and
answers already passed
Wavelength - correct answer ✔Horizontal distance between the crests or
between the troughs of two adjacent waves
Wave Height - correct answer ✔the vertical distance from the crest of a wave
to the trough
Wave Base - correct answer ✔the depth, approximately equal in distance to
half a wavelength in a body of water, beneath which there is no wave
movement
Sea Arch - correct answer ✔a natural opening eroded out of a cliff face by
marine processes
Tombolo - correct answer ✔A ridge of sand that connects an island to the
mainland or to another island
Gulf Stream - correct answer ✔A warm ocean current that flows from the
Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean
California Current - correct answer ✔flow of cold water that influences the
western Pacific coast of the USA
The Humbolt Current (Peru Current) - correct answer ✔Cold, low-salinity
ocean current that flows north along the western coast of south america
answers already passed
Wavelength - correct answer ✔Horizontal distance between the crests or
between the troughs of two adjacent waves
Wave Height - correct answer ✔the vertical distance from the crest of a wave
to the trough
Wave Base - correct answer ✔the depth, approximately equal in distance to
half a wavelength in a body of water, beneath which there is no wave
movement
Sea Arch - correct answer ✔a natural opening eroded out of a cliff face by
marine processes
Tombolo - correct answer ✔A ridge of sand that connects an island to the
mainland or to another island
Gulf Stream - correct answer ✔A warm ocean current that flows from the
Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean
California Current - correct answer ✔flow of cold water that influences the
western Pacific coast of the USA
The Humbolt Current (Peru Current) - correct answer ✔Cold, low-salinity
ocean current that flows north along the western coast of south america
