Types of tides
High tides and Low tides
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Vocabulary
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What causes spring tides?
What is the gravitational pull can be strong or week, but when the moon's pull is the strongest that is when spring tides form.
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What forms in the areas between the high tides?
What is a low tide
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Tides are caused by the gravitational attraction of what two celestial bodies?
What is the moon and the sun.
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What causes deep ocean currents?

What is warm water sinking under colder water. 

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when spring tides are formed the sun and moon are considered to be at this angle.
What is a 180 degree
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Why do most coastal areas experience two high tides and two low tides?
What is The gravity of the moon pulls the water on the earth toward it as the earth rotates around its axis. The water on the earth is pulled into a high tide 2 times per day
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Which celestial body has a greater effect on tidal forces on Earth?
What is the Moon
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What is the main cause of surface ocean currents?

What is global winds. 

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Name the two orders of the Earth, Sun and Moon during a Spring Tide
What is 1. Sun, Moon then Earth 2. Sun, Earth and Moon
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In many places there are ______ and _______ each day.
What are are two high tides and two low tides?
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Where do the highest tides happen
What is the Bay Of Fundy in Canada
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Tides that have the largest daily tidal range.
What are spring tides?
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How many times does a neap tide happen each month.
What is two times
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What is a tidal range?
What is the difference between high and low tides.
400

What moves water parallel to Earth's surface?

What is surface currents.

400

The Coriolis effect is caused by what?

What is Earth's rotation. 

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A tidal bulge that is smaller than normal, resulting in less extreme high and low tides is called a what?
What is a neap tide
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What is the basic definition of tides?
What is The cycle of of rising and falling of the surface of bodies of water caused by the attraction of the moon and sun.
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How do most warm currents move?

What is away from the Earth's equator. 

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An extra-high tidal bulge and an extra-low tidal dip that occurs at the time of the new and full Moon is called what?
What is a spring tide
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