How can there be big waves at the coast when there is little or no wind?
a. Land must be sheltering your location from the wind.
b. The storm generating the waves is far offshore.
c. The waves take longer to dissipate than the wind.
d. The waves were caused by a large ship far offshore.
e. This cannot occur, because wind and waves always occur together.
ANSWER: b
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