Words

Beach Terms

Offshore Inshore, or Shoreface. Extends through the breaker zone. Foreshore or Beach Face Beach or Shore Coast

Colors

Blues

Browns

Greens

Whites

Abyssal black - the blackest black

Directions

Leeward - direction toward the wind or the way the waves are traveling, side away from the wind, side sheltered from the wind
Windward - direction from when the wind is blowing

North - Tuatea (“break of a wave”)
South - Takere (“bottom of the lake”)
East - Tai (“sea, as opposed to uta”)
West - Uta (“land or coast when in the sea”)

Emotions and Adjectives

Backwashed - frustrated or thrown back by obstructions.
Boiling angry
Buoyant - happy
Ebb and flow
Euphotic - happy. The euphotic zone is the zone where light can still penetrate the water.
Flooded with...
Overwashed - overwhelmed
Surge of emotion...

Exclamations and Endearments

Darling (referring to a child)- Pipi “chick”
Darling - Ipo, tau, whaiaipo
Dear - kare
Fish-brained
Lonely landlubber!
Loner!
My fat dear (endearment)
Oh no! - aue!
Oh! - ai!
You straggler!
Stupid! - Koakoa!

Miscellaneous

Embark
Listing
Runoff
Saturated
Seascapes
Seepage
Seaworthy
Sinking fast
Swamped

Sciences and Specialized Words

Algaculture -Algae farming
Aquaculture 0r aquafarming - Farming raised fish as opposed to wild fish (fishing)
Aquifer - Water bearing formations.
Bathymetric globe - Globe with the depth of the various bodies of water. Also hydrographic relief.
Glaciology - study of glaciers.
Hydrobiology - Life in water.
Hydrography - The measurement of the physical characteristics and description of waters.
Hydrology - Refers to the movement and distribution of water, the water cycle, water quality, etc.
Hydrometerology - This refers to the transfer of water and energy between the lower atmosphere and land.
Hydropathy - The water cure.
Hydrophily - Plants pollinated in water.
Hydroponics - Growing things in nutrient-rich water, not soil.
Hydrotherapy -
Limnology - The study of inland waters.
Mariculture - cultivating fish and other foods from the sea
Oceanography - The study of the oceans. Can be biological, physical, chemical.
Paleoceanography
Pelagic - open ocean
Benthic zone - deep sea, col, no light, decomposing bodies
Abyssal zone - deepest parts, lots of (to us) exotic life
Rheotaxis -Rheotaxis positive plants grow with the water current, and rheotaxis negative grow against.
Sea Ranching - Free ranching of fish in the sea (Japanese). The Kaiteri keep young fish in a net in the sea and sound an underwater horn every time they feed the fish. When the fish mature, they let them go and wait for them to come back when they spawn. Then the Kaiteri sound the underwater horn again, the mature fish come, and the net is brought up.
Transpiration - The process of water being absorbed by plants and evaporating into the atmosphere through plant pores.

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