What are they?
Spring Tides
Causes
Neap Tides
Celestial Bodies
50
The description of a Tide
What is the point where ocean levels are higher or lower?
50
Synonym for Spring (as in Spring Tides)
What is High, Colossal, Tall?
50
The definition of gravity
What is a force that pulls other objects toward its center?
50
Synonym for Neap
What is Short, Smaller?
50
The Moon's distance to the Earth in relation to the Sun
What is closer?
175
The description of a low tide
What is the point where ocean levels are lower?
175
The Moon Phase Spring tides can only occur
What are Full Moons and New Moons?
175
The force that mainly causes tides
What is The Moon?
175
The moon phase that neap tides can only occur
What are First Quarter Moons and Last Quarter Moons?
175
The spinning of the Earth
What is Rotation?
250
The description of a high tide
What is the point where ocean levels are higher?
250
The effect of a spring tide coming in
What is a super tide during the high tide, and a very low tide during low tide?
250
The reason we experience tides at different times throughout the month
What is The Moon's Revolution?
250
The effect of a neap tide coming in
What is a more balanced high and low tide?
250
The Moon's orbit around Earth, similar to the Earth's orbit around the Sun
What is Revolution?
325
What is the distance between a low and high tide?
325
The direction the Moon and Sun pull in a spring tide
What is the same direction?
325
The amount of tides most parts of the Earth experiences in a day
What is 4?
325
The direction the Sun and Moon pull in a neap tide
What is Perpendicular Direction (90 degree angle)?
325
The tilt the Earth has
What is Axis (23.5 degrees tilt)?
400
The reason the Sun does not effect the oceans as much as the Moon (except during spring / neap)
What is The Moon is closer?
400
*BONUS - This question is worth 500 pts.* The forces of Spring tides and their action
What is The Moon and the Sun both pulling the Earth's waters at the same time?
400
The highest high tide average
What is About 38 ft?
400
*PENALTY - This question is only worth 275 pts.* The forces of a neap tide and their action
What is The Moon and the Sun pulling the Earth's water bodies simultaneously?
400
The reason we experience more than one tide a day
What is Rotation?