can science explain the sources and mouths of winds and oceans?
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If you think about it, the "source" of a river is not a real thing; It's just a single spot in the water cycle. Rain falls, collects, runs into streams, runs into rivers, run to a lake or an ocean, evapourates into clouds, and goes round again.  You could argue that anywhere in this cycle is a starting point, or nowhere.  Gravity & evapouration are driving this cycle.  In the same way, winds are just air moving from an area of higher pressure to an area of lower pressure. What causes these differences in pressure is what starts the winds a-blowing.  Some of the factors involved are temperature changes in the oceans, and the friction of the atmosphere against the earth as it turns.
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The waves are usually formed by wind action, but can be formed by earthquakes or volcanic explosions (tsunamis). The tides are a result of gravitational effects of the moon and sun.
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At dusk, the land has begun to cool but the ocean, being water, retains heat longer than the land does.  The temperature differential causes a wind to blow out toward the ocean due to the rising warm air over the ocean.  This wind blows the clouds out into their thin and whispy shape.
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The Pacific Ocean...if you know the answer, then why are you asking?
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I love this type of science - this is the only science that I know _-- Earth Science!\n\nIn 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating bands -- each band magnetized with a polarity opposite the surrounding bands. They suggested that as new sea-floor crust was formed around the rift in the midocean ridge, it magnetized differently, depending upon the polarity of the planet at that time. This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens as new sea floor is created along a crack that follows the crest of midocean ridges.\n\nIn 1966, earth scientists first identified the Jaramillo Event, the wholesale reversal of Earth's magnetic fields some 900,000 years ago. This confirmed the theory that Earth's magnetic field had flip-flopped through the planet's life, and it made Matthews and Vine's 1963 finding quite clear. They realized that the pattern of reversals matched perfectly the magnetic profile they had compiled of the sea floor. This discovery, together with data from a 1964 research vessel, transformed the field of geology. It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally proposed by Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It convinced many that plate tectonics was the best theory to unify nearly all the previously accumulated, but disjoint geological data.
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Wind erosion is both a destroyer and preserver. When wind erodes a place, certainly it deposits the sediments and leaves, seeds etc. to other place, giving the other place a new life.\nHowever in some cases it acts only as a destroyer, only because of human activities as they cut the trees but don't bother to plant again. So fertile land gets wasted.
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National Geografic website has a lot of information about it. \nIf you go to the linlk provided and then to the section of Natural Forces, you will find a lot of material to support your research. \n\nSecond link is about simulate and understand these events, explaning how it works at all their levels. You can find it to Earthquake, Hurricane, etc. I've putted the link to Vulcanoes\n\nGood luck
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You seem to be skeptical.... and yes there is a lot of interesting findings regarding the red sea... also known as the sea of reeds. I suggest you take a course in archaeology and learn what has been discovered there. Or read up on the latest info through www.biblicalarchaeology.org.
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The moon's gravitational pull causes the waves to form.\n\nAnd those waves are what cause wind to be generated.
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probably gravity. it's the most likely. without gravity there would be no wind, running water or sea waves. think about it for a second it'll make sense
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Gravity by itself doesn't make rivers flow.  The water cycle also plays an important part.  If it were not for the constant replenishment of reserviors of water through the water cycle, "high" areas would quickly empty of water.  Also high and low are relative terms and the force of gravity attracts mass towards the center of a massive body (in this case the earth).
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ok i'm sorry, but rather than write it all out, please go here:  http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html\n\nsmooth sailing
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great question -way beyond my knowledge base\nsomebody correct me when I'm wrong.  If the earth spins in the opposite direction then all the things affected by the Coriolis Effect are opposite- do Atlantic hurricanes  happen ? does the Gulf Stream exist ? I don't  think so because the current on the American side of the Atlantic would be going south from Arctic regions and the Europeans would get the African waters. lots of possibilities\nwe know for sure that the jet streams  will go  in the opposite direction \nclimates  would be different- a question of where  water is coming from and going to.\nagain great question
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It will be easier to read the chapter where these questions were than reading the answers you get here.\n\nYou are better off putting answers in your own words and asking each question separately than in a list like this.\n\nLateral thinking may be needed too.\n\nConsider : - Gravity makes things go down, heat makes things go up.\n\n** Plate movements cause places to move north / south or up. How would each of these influence climate?\n\nJust read the chapter, talk to your teacher and LISTEN in class.
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Have you ever seen trees still, then suddenly start shaking around or "swaying" inexplicably--with no one else around? Have you ever been in or seen a sailboat?  The motion of acceleration that did not come from an engine is to be explained how?  Have you ever driven with your windows open?  Storms do not just stay in one place, rather they proceed across the continent.  All of these things are attributable to....WIND! I win lol!  P.S. Just because you haven't seen something--doesn't mean it doesn't exist: ex= a baby pigeon!  lol
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None of the above.\n\nThe "most" true statement would be that it "transfers" its energy from its winds to the shallower water creating waves, but it's not entirely true.  Huge waves are also present in very deep water during a hurricane; it doesn't require shallow water to create large waves.\n\nOh, and contrary to some posts here, it doesn't gather most of its power from warm air, it gathers it from warm water.  That's why it never gains strength once it hits land.  Lord knows Florida's hot, and if it were the air that was the defining factor, these things wouldn't lose strength the moment they hit land.
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Various explanations for the apparent high number of dissapperances have been put forward, ranging from the mundane to the hyper-fantastic.\n\nSkeptics contend that this region has a comparable rate of maritime and aerial incidents as any other similar sized region of the ocean. They point out that Lloyd's of London, a world-reknowned insurer of maritime vessels, does not charge a higher insurance premium for ships that regularly traverse the triangle.\n\nScientific considerations for an increased dissaperance rate take into acount that this region experiences severe tropical storms and is the source of many hurricanes. These storms create an increased danger to both ship and air traffic.\n\nRougue waves have also been put forward as a possible cause. These rare waves can reach heights of as much as 100 feet (30 meters), easily swamping most ships. Rouge waves, however, would have no effect on air travel.\n\nA third scientific explanation is methane hydrates. Methane deposits on the ocean floor may release bursts of methane gas that reduces the density of the water it permeates. Since ships rely on displacement to stay afloat, a reduction of density in the water would cause a ship to immediately sink. As the methane leaves the water and rises into the air, it would reduce the density of the air as well, thus reducing lift on aircraft, causing them to descend rapidly. In addition, the methane would change the air mixture taken into the engines of the aircraft, causing the engine to stall. While these events have not been witnessed in nature, they have been proven in lab experiments.\n\nMore exotic explanations for the Bermuda Triangle include it being an area of magnetic disturbance, temporal (or time) holes, the location of the lost city of Atlantis, or extra-terrestrial abduction.