Tides

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 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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What causes tides?

• gravity

• wind

• spring

• neap

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Which body has the greater effect on Earth's tides?

• Sun

• Saturn

• Moon 

• Venus

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Jackson and Evelyn are studying the alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. What type of tides would this arrangement create?

• neap tide

• spring tide

• new moon tide

• full moon tide

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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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The rising tide is also called:

• ebb tide

• spring tide

• flood tide

• neap tide

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In some parts of the world like Alaska and China, the flood tide causes large waves to form as the water rushes into an inlet. This is called:

• ebb tide

• king tide

• spring tide

• bore tide

Some coastlines only experience one high tide and one low tide each day. This pattern is called:

• mixed tides

• semidiurnal tides

• diurnal tides

• bore tides

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Why does the moon's gravitational pull have more of effect on tides than the sun's gravitational pull?

• they are the same

• the moon is larger than the sun

• tides are not caused by the moon

• the moon is closer to the Earth than the sun

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