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SCIENCE PUZZLERS, TWISTERS & TEASERS

The Movement of Ocean Water

Crossed-Up Words
1. The answer to each of the definitions is already in the right place
in this crossword puzzle. Unfortunately, the order of the letters is
scrambled. Unscramble the words and write the correct term in
the space provided.

1
L
2
I E

T S
3 4
T F F I C L O E R E O C I S

N T C
5
S R P N W G I L E L U
6
I A F O

I Y G U
7 8
N M N T H R O U G
9
T N S M A U I R

K U S I
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K D N

O W R

ACROSS A
3. worldwide current turner A
F
5. brings nutrients to the surface
C

N
8. as low as you can go on a wave
E

9. shake, rattle, and drown T

4. keeps the coast “cool”

DOWN
1. saltiness 6. saved Thor the price of a flight

2. this is why Iceland isn’t 7. a cause of surface currents

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The Movement of Ocean Water, continued

Daffy Definitions
2. The definitions below describe some words and concepts from
the chapter. Some are trick definitions, while others come from
a scientific dictionary. Place the correct word being defind in the
blanks to the right.
a. unexciting ebb and flood
b. superficial maritime flow
c. a disturbance in a medium
that propagates from one
point in a medium to other
points without giving the
medium as a whole any
permanent displacement
d. brackishness quotient
e. maximum positive displace-
ment of a periodic surfacial
disturbance
f. abyssal maritime circulation
g. a subsurface seaward movement
carried up a sloping beach by
waves or breakers that is caused
by the gravity flow of water

Fractured Frames

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3. Each frame represents a word or concept from the chapter if
you read it in just the right way. What word or phrase does each
puzzle represent?

g
surf’s n
i
l
l
e
w
tide
a. c.

tide

b.

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