You Can Get Out of a Rip Current Easily by Swimming

question 19

Multiple Choice

You can get out of a rip current easily by swimming ____ to the beach instead of struggling against the current.

• A) perpendicular
• B) on your back
• C) diagonally
• D) parallel
• E) There is no easy way out of a rip current.

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Definitions:

P-Waves

Primary waves, or compressional waves, which are the fastest kind of seismic wave and can travel through solid, liquid, or gas layers of the Earth.

Seismographs

Seismographs are instruments that measure and record the motion of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other seismic sources.

Plate Divergence

A tectonic process involving the moving apart, or divergence, of two tectonic plates.

Oceanic Trench

Deep depressions in the ocean floor caused by the subduction of one tectonic plate under another.