Ocean Tides & Waves

What is the difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tide?

• Tide
• Tidal range
• Spring tide
• Neap tide

What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

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What do we call the small tides that happen when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other?

• Neap Tide
• Spring Tide
• Larger Change
• Smaller Change

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What type of tide would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• full moon tide

• new moon tide

• neap tide

• spring tide

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Tides are caused by what force from the sun and moon?

• gravitational

• strong

• tidal force

• armed forces

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High tides and low tides each happen _____ times per day.

• 4

• 2

• 1

• 24

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Neap tides happen at _________ and _________ phases of the moon.

• first quarter and new moon

• last quarter and full moon

• waxing and waning

• 1st quarter and 3rd quarter

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What is a tide?

• large and small waves along a coastline
• the daily rise and fall of the earth's waters along a coastline
• a red elephant from Alabama
• deep and shallow ocean reservoirs near a coastline

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What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

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When the moon is at full moon or new moon, what type of tide will we experience?

• rip tide
• spring tide
• neap tide
• breaker tide

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