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Lunar tides and solar tides partially cancel each other out. (During high tides, they work together)
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What is a spring tide and a neap tides?
Neap tide occurs when the moon, earth, and sun are making a right angle.Spring tide occurs when they are in a straight line.Spring tide is the highest tideNeap Tide is when the tide is the lowestA spring tide is occurs when the moon is in alignment with the earth and sun at the same time. This happens during the new moon and full moon phases. When a spring tide occurs, the low tides are REALLY low and the high tides are VERY high.A neap tide is the exact opposite...the difference in tides is not as distinguishable. The high tides are fairly low and the low tides are not too low. This occurs when the moon is in its first or third (last) quarter phases (not in alignment with the sun).During the full moon and new moon days, the sun, the earth and the moon are in the same line and the tides are highest. These tides are called spring tides. But when yhe moon is in its first and last quarter, the ocean waters get drawn in diagonally opposite directions by the gravitational pull of the sun and the earth resulting in low tides. These tides are called neap tides.
What occurs when high tides are the highest and low tides are the lowest?
Tidal maximums and Tidal minimums. These two Incidents are not co-incidental.
What type of tides has the highest high tides and the lowest low tides called?
The greatest high tides are Spring tides where the Earth, Moon, and Sun are in a line. They are also the lowest low tides. The least high tides and low tides are called neap tides when the sun, moon and earth form a right angle
Is the greatest difference between low and high tides occurs during a neap tide?
No, the greatest difference between low and high tides occurs during a spring tide, which happens when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned. Neap tides occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other, resulting in smaller tidal range.
How may hours low tides happen every day?
Low tide occurs approximately every 12 hours.
Which type of tide occurs when the sun the moon and the earth are aligned?
Spring Tides. That is the High tide is very high and the low tide is very low. When the Sun, Earth and Moon are at 'right-angles to each other, then we have Neap Tides. The height range between high and low tides is much less than Spring Tides.
What is the scientific name for high tide and low tide?
The scientific terms for high tide and low tide are "high water" and "low water," respectively. Tides are primarily caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on Earth's oceans. The cycle of high and low tides occurs roughly every 12.5 hours, resulting in two high tides and two low tides each day.
Why do tides occour?
the moons gravitational pull causes the tides. high tide and low tide. Also each tide occurs twice each day
What causes low tides?
The moon's gravitational pull.The tides occur because of the gravitational pull of the the moon on the major bodies of water. Low tide occurs where the gravitational pull of the moon is lowest, on the opposite side of Earth from where the moon is directly overhead, which is where high tide occurs.
The grassland has low to no tides?
The grassland does not have tides. Low to no tides can be found in marshland.
What are two high tides and two low tides a day called?
High tides, low tides, spring tides (which are maximum high tides) and neap tides (which are the lowest of low tides).
What are spring tides and neap tides?
Spring tide:A tide with the Greatest different between high and low tide that occurs when the sun and the moon are aligned with Earth at the new moon and full moon. Neap tide:A tide with the least different between low and high tide that occurs when the sun and moon pull at right angles to each other at the first and third quarters of the moon. Hope i Helped :)
