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What will be an ideal response?
The wind blowing over the open ocean transfers some of its motion energy to the water because of friction between the moving air and the water surface. The energy in the water moves across the ocean as waves. When the wave reaches the shoreline, part of the energy is transfer to sound waves that we hear as the roar of the surf, as well as transfer of energy from the water to the seafloor to erode sediment.
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