Chapter 11 - Tides Review

Which has the greatest influence on ocean tides?

• The Moon

• The Sun

• Satellites

• Centrifugal Force

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The tidal range is the

• difference in the high tide and low tide

• sum of high tide and low tide

• tidal datum

• the mean sea level

Spring tides result when

• there is a full moon

• there is a 1/4 moon

• there is a waning gibbous

• there is a full or a new moon

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The tidal pattern in which there is one high tide and one low tide is

• diurnal tide

• semidiurnal tide

• quarternary tide

• mixed tide

A tidal pattern of 2 high tides and 2 low tides is

• semidiurnal tide

• diurnal tide

• mixed tide

• lunar tide

When the tidal current is changing direction, resulting in little to no flow it is known as

• slack tide

• high tide

• tideless

• solar tide