WorksheetsOcean Tides & Waves
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tide?
a)
Tide
b)
Tidal range
c)
Spring tide
d)
Neap tide
2.
What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?
a)
neap tide
b)
spring tide
c)
new moon tide
d)
full moon tide
3.
What do we call the small tides that happen when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other?
a)
Neap Tide
b)
Spring Tide
c)
Larger Change
d)
Smaller Change
4.
What type of tide would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?
a)
full moon tide
b)
new moon tide
c)
neap tide
d)
spring tide
5.
Tides are caused by what force from the sun and moon?
a)
gravitational
b)
strong
c)
tidal force
d)
armed forces
6.
High tides and low tides each happen _____ times per day.
a)
4
b)
2
c)
1
d)
24
7.
Neap tides happen at _________ and _________ phases of the moon.
a)
first quarter and new moon
b)
last quarter and full moon
c)
waxing and waning
d)
1st quarter and 3rd quarter
8.
What is a tide?
a)
large and small waves along a coastline
b)
the daily rise and fall of the earth's waters along a coastline
c)
a red elephant from Alabama
d)
deep and shallow ocean reservoirs near a coastline
9.
What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?
a)
neap tide
b)
spring tide
c)
new moon tide
d)
full moon tide
10.
When the moon is at full moon or new moon, what type of tide will we experience?
a)
rip tide
b)
spring tide
c)
neap tide
d)
breaker tide
11.
A dangerous current that results from a break in a sandbar is known as a
a)
longshore current
b)
global current
c)
tidal current
d)
rip current
12.
Name this moon phase
a)
Waxing Gibbous
b)
Waxing Crescent
c)
Waning Crescent
d)
Waning Gibbous
13.
Name this moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)
Last Quarter
c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
14.
Name this moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)
Last Quarter
c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
15.
Name the moon phase
a)
waning crescent
b)
waxing crescent
c)
waning gibbous
d)
waxing gibbous
16.
Name the moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)
Last Quarter
c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
17.
The highest point on a wave is:
a)
the crest
b)
the trough
c)
the top
d)
the coast
18.
Which vocabulary term is used to identify the distance between points C & G?
a)
Amplitude
b)
Crest
c)
Frequency
d)
Wavelength
19.
Which letter(s) represent the trough of the wave?
a)
A
b)
B & D
c)
D
d)
C & G
20.
Which wave in the diagram has the greatest wavelength?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
21.
Which wave in the diagram has the greatest frequency?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
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