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| a movement of ocean water that follows a regular pattern |
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| a horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind that occersat or near the ocean's surface |
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| the apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation |
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| a steamlike movement of ocean water far from the surface |
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| the movement of deep cold and nutrient rich water to the surface |
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| a change in surface water tempurture in the Pacifc Ocean that produces a warm current |
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| Achange in the Eastern Pacific in which the suface tempurture becomes unusaly cool |
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| a subsurf that is near the shore and pulls things out to sea |
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| a water curent that travels near and parrallel to the shoreline |
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| one of a group of long ocean waves that have steadily travled a great distance from their point of generation |
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| a local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused y strong winds |
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| the bubbles in the crest of a breaking wave |
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| the highest point of a wave |
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