Moon
Phases of the moon that cause spring tides
What the full and new moon
Two highs and two lows where the heights of the 2 high tides and the 2 low tides are about the same.
What is a Neap tide?
The incoming tide.
What is are Flood Tides?
The difference between the high and the low tide.
What is tidal range.
The Intertidal Zone is located here?
On shores, between the high tide and low tide.
Phases of the moon that cause neap tides
What are quarter moons
When both high tide are abnormally high and both lows are abnormally low
What is a King/Spring Tide
An outgoing tide.
An outgoing tide.
This causes tides but is not gravity.
What is inertia (centrifugal force)
What is one challenge facing animals in the intertidal zone?
Changing environment, including water, air, temperature, salinity; and waves
This is the reason we only see one face of the moon
What is Tidal Lock
a neap tide occurs when the moon is _____ to the Earth
What is perpendicular
A dome of water created under a storm center that can raise the level of the tide when the storm reaches the shore.
What is a storm surge.
Something that can be generated by harnessing the energy in tides.
Daily Double
What is electricity.
What characteristics do animals in the high-tide zone typically have?
Hard shells, ability to hide or close themselves during low tide.
How many low tides are there each day?
What are 2?
A spring tide occurs when the Moon is _________ to the Earth.
That is parallel?
A pathway cut through a marsh by the tides.
What is a tidal channel
Area between high and low tide.
What is the intertidal zone
What zone within the intertidal zone is never covered by water, but only splashed by the waves?
Splash zone
Solar eclipses can only occur when the Moon is located..
What is between the earth and Sun
On location when the change in tides are extreme is know as..
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Bay of Fundy
An extreme level of tide created by a large hurricane or typhoon
What is Storm Surge?
The best location to go clamming is at ____ tide on a ________
what is low on a Mud Flat?
What word means a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?
Adaptation