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Water reshaping worlds

Earth and Water

These pages focus on the ways water behaves very differently at depth, at speed, and over long timescales.

Start with What causes tsunamis? All explainer groups
4 explainers in this cluster: what causes tsunamis? how does sonar work? how do glaciers form? what causes ocean waves?

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Ice, waves, sonar, and tsunamis showing how water stores energy, moves matter, and changes coastlines.

Earth and Water What causes tsunamis?

A tsunami lab that lets you change seafloor slip, ocean depth, basin shape, and coastline geometry to compare the deep-ocean wave with the shoreline impact.

Earth and Water How does sonar work?

A sonar lab that lets you change pulse strength, target size, distance, and background noise to compare crisp echoes with weak, cluttered returns.

Earth and Water How do glaciers form?

A glacier lab that lets you change snowfall, cold, summer melting, and compression to compare growing ice fields with retreating glacier margins.

Earth and Water What causes ocean waves?

A wave lab that lets you change wind speed, wind duration, fetch, and water depth to compare light chop, long swell, and breaking surf.

Further Reading

Trusted places to keep exploring

These are good next stops if you want to move from a quick explainer into broader source material.

NOAA Ocean Service oceanservice.noaa.gov USGS Water Science www.usgs.gov NASA Earth Science science.nasa.gov
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