GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Waves are most commonly caused by wind. Wind-driven waves, or surface waves, are created by the friction between wind and surface water. As wind blows across the surface of the ocean or a lake, the continual disturbance creates a wave crest.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sun is the main source of energy for the oceans, both directly, through light and heat energy, and indirectly, by heating the air to produce winds. The oceans also receive energy from the pull exerted on the Earth by the moon, planets, and the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -The energy is a result of the wind blowing over the water surface. Waves break at the shorelines and lose the energy to the landmass. (ii) Waves in the ocean get their energy from the wind.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wave Generation This friction produces turbulence in the air near the surface of the water while also transferring some of the air’s kinetic energy into the water. The transfer of energy into the water combined with the turbulence produces perturbations in the surface of the water that eventually become waves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tidal energy, produced either by tidal-range technologies using a barrage (a dam or other barrier) to harvest power between high and low tide; tidal-current or tidal-stream technologies; or hybrid applications.