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Tides

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False: Tides involve only the moon and Earth.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

True or False: According to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation that when you increase mass of an object, you increase force of gravity

a)

True

b)

False

3.

True or False: Ebb tides are when water moves away from the shore.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is a Quadrature

a)

Full Moon

b)

Moon in first or third quarter phase

c)

Moon in last quarter phase

5.

Tidal range least at aphelion (July)

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Where are tidal range the greatest.

a)

peri

b)

perimeter

c)

perihelion

7.

There are 12 hours and 25 minutes typically between high tides in a lunar day?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Intertidal organisms can adapt to what tides?

a)

high

b)

low

c)

both

d)

neither

9.

What spawns only after each night’s higher high tide has peaked on the three or four nights following the night of the highest spring high tide

a)

mussels

b)

starfish

c)

grunion

d)

sculpin

10.

Earth and Moon is broght together by what force?

a)

tidal force

b)

resultant force

c)

centripetal force