Why oceans, seas and beaches have waves? How these waves are formed?
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Have you ever blowed onto a bowl of hot soup and seen the ripples in the liquid? Pretty much the same thing. Iirc it has a lot to do with the wind. If you look up a picture/map of ocean currents it lines up with weather patterns across the seas. So you have all this wind constantly blowing across the top of the water and thats what causes the waves.
Wind blows on the water and makes it ripple.
Storms and trade winds account for most waves. Some of the the highest waves are caused by hurricanes and typhoons.
This is something that should have been learned in 3rd grade Earth science. The moon orbits the Earth. The moon exerts a gravitational pull on the Earth while the Earth does the same to the moon. The moon’s pull on Earth drags the water of the Earth as it orbits. So as the moon pulls water it pulls it from the land in some places and pushes it into others thus causing the tides. Wind is caused by the sun heating the surface of the planet and then cooling causing convection (hot air rises, cold air falls). This in turn causes areas of low and high pressure in the atmosphere. High pressure moves into low pressure areas and in turn creates more low pressure. This creates winds which push surface water causing waves
The better question is how do wind forms.
You’ll get interesting answers that involves outer space
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