
Tides
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- Q1What causes the tidesGravitational pull of the Moon on the Oceans of EarthThe Coriolis effectGravitational pull of the Sun on Oceans of EarthThe winds of the Earth30s
- Q2How many high tides occur each day in a specific place?243130s
- Q3what name is applied to the tides when the moon and sun work together to create unusually high high tides and low low tidesNeap tidesFall tidesSpring TidesNormal tides30s
- Q4What name is applied to unusually high low tides and low high tides?Fall TidesNormal tidesSpring tidesNeap tides30s
- Q5What types of tides occur at New and Full moon?Fall TidesNeap tidesNormal TidesSpring Tides30s
- Q6What types of tides occur at 1st and 3rd (last) quarter moons?Normal tidesSpring tidesNeap TidesFall tides30s
- Q7What types of tides occur at waxing and waining crescents and gibbouses?Normal tidesSpring tidesNeap tidesFall tides30s
- Q8How are the Earth, Moon and Sun alligned during a Neap TideThe Earth, Moon and Sun form a 135 degree angleThe Earth, Moon and Sun form a 90 degree angleThe Earth, Moon and Sun form a 45 degree anglea straight line30s
- Q9Which type of tide has the largest range between a low and high tide?Fall tideSpring tideNeap tideNormal tide30s
- Q10Which type of tide has the lowest tidal range between high and low tide?Neap tideNormal tideFall TideSpring tide30s
- Q11How would you know that a Spring tide occured by looking at a tide chart?If the high was one of two lowest highs that monthIf the low was one of two highest lows that monthIf it was a first quarter moonIf the high was one of two highest that month30s
- Q12Why do tides occur 50 minutes later each day?As the moon rotates, it revolves at the same length of timeAs the Earth rotates under the moon, the Earth Revolves around the sunAs the Earth rotates, it also revolves around the Sunas the Earth rotates under the moon to cause tides, the moon is revolving around the sun- it takes 50 minutes to get back to the starting point30s