Tides

Front

True or False: Tides involve only the moon and Earth.

Back

False

Front

True or False: According to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation that when you increase mass of an object, you increase force of gravity

Back

True

Front

True or False: Ebb tides are when water moves away from the shore.

Back

True

Front

What is a Quadrature?

Back

Moon in first or third quarter phase

Front

Tidal range least at aphelion (July)

Back

True

Front

Where are tidal range the greatest?

Back

perihelion

Front

There are 12 hours and 25 minutes typically between high tides in a lunar day?

Back

True

Front

Intertidal organisms can adapt to what tides?

Back

both

Front

What spawns only after each night’s higher high tide has peaked on the three or four nights following the night of the highest spring high tide?

Back

grunion

Front

Earth and Moon is brought together by what force?

Back

centripetal force