Spring tides
What causes spring tides?
When the moon and the sun and the earth line up, this tide forms.
How much time is there from one high tide to another high tide?
What is 12 hours and 25 minutes
How long is a lunar day/ month?
What is 29.5 Earth days.
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.
True or False - You can never tell when a low tide happens.
What is false sometimes you can tell when it is a low tide.
why are high tides lower than normal during a neap tide?
Gravity from the sun and the moondon't line up.
Why do most coastal areas experience two high tides and two low tides?
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
Where do the highest tides happen
What is the Bay Of Fundy in Canada
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
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
During a neap tides, high tides are...
What is lower than normal?
In many places there are ___ ____ tides and ____ ____ tides each day.
What are are two high tides and two low tides?
How many spring and neap tides occur in a lunar month?
What are two sets of spring and two sets of neap tides that occur?
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