Quiz 33

A force that causes an object to move in a circle.

• Centripetal Force
• Solar Nebula
• Planetesimals
• Tides

A large cloud of gas and dust such as the one that formed our solar system.

• Centripetal Force
• Solar Nebula
• Planetesimals
• Tides

Small planetary objects that form through the actions of gravity during the birth of a solar system.

• Centripetal Force
• Solar Nebula
• Planetesimals
• Tides

The regular rise and fall of the ocean's surface influenced by the moon's gravity pulling on earth.

• Centripetal Force
• Solar Nebula
• Planetesimals
• Tides

The difference in levels of ocean water at high tide and low tide.

• Tidal range
• Spring Tides
• Neap Tides
• Diurnal

Tides that have the greatest tidal range due to the alignment of the earth-moon-sun system.

• Tidal range
• Spring Tides
• Neap Tides
• Diurnal

Tides with the minimum daily tidal range that occur during the first and third quarters of the moon.

• Tidal range
• Spring Tides
• Neap Tides
• Diurnal

Tides that happen once a day and the heights of high and low tides are about the same.

• Tidal range
• Spring Tides
• Neap Tides
• Diurnal

Tides occur twice a day with the high and low tide height about the same.

• Neap Tides
• Diurnal
• Semidurnal
• Tidal bulge

A bulge of water formed by the pull of the Sun and Moon's gravity

• Neap Tides
• Diurnal
• Semidurnal
• Tidal bulge