AFFECTS
Tides affect marine ecosystems by influencing these two types of things that live there.
What are plants and animals?
Beaches have this amount of high tides.
What is two?
This causes high and low tides.
What is gravity?
These occur twice each lunar month (29 days) all year long without regard to the season.
What are spring tides?
Plants and animals that live along the shoreline have to do this to survive.
What is anchor?
Two high tides and two low tides occur this often.
How long is 24 hours and 50 minutes?
Tides are the rising and falling of this.
What is the sea?
Spring tides occur this many times per month.
How long is twice?
Plants and animals that live along the shoreline have to survive these.
What are waves?
This is different based on where you are.
What is the rise and fall of tides?
The moon pulls on the this closest to it making it bulge out.
What is the ocean?
These, which occur twice a month, happen when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.
What are neap tides?
One kind of animal borrows under the sand as these come and go.
What are waves?
High tides occur this far apart.
How long is 12 hours and 25 minutes.
The moon's gravity also pulls the earth toward it, making it high tide on this side of the earth as well.
What is the opposite?
Neap tides, which also occur twice a month, happen when this and the moon are at right angles to each other.
What is the sun?
This kind of animal borrows under the sand to survive.
What are sand crabs?
It takes 12.5 minutes for this at the shore to go from high to low.
What is water?
The gravity of the moon also pulls this to it.
What is the Earth?
Neap tides, which also occur twice a month, happen when the sun and this are at right angles to each other.
What is the moon?