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What is the name of a collapsing wave?
It's called a breaking wave or breaker.
What is a collapsing wave?
This is called a breaking wave also known as a breaker.
Which feature of a sound wave determines the pitch of the sound?
That's the wave's frequency.
The bubbles in the crest of a breaking wave?
swells
What are two feature formed by wave deposition?
The two features formed by wave deposition are islands and beaches.
What is the surfing ediquit?
The person nearest to the breaking wave (the whitewash) has priortiy. Also if some one gets a wave farther out than you, it is their wave.
The points on a standing wave where no motion occurs are?
The breaking point.
What is a peeling wave?
Usally used to describe a nicely breaking wave, with it peeling down the line instead of dumping.
What does a surfer call the lip of breaking wave called?
A hook. The lip.
Length of time between breaking waves called?
waVE PEROIDS
What feature of a sound wave reveals the energy it contains?
It's amplitude.
What causes a breaking wave?
Waves out in the ocean don't break because they are in deep water, waves break when they reach shallower water and so the bottom of the wave catches on the bottom and causes a bit of friction which slows the wave down and cause it to fall over itself, which is breaking
