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What term is used to refer to the rise and fall sea level?
Tides
Why are river tides have more variance than ocean tide?
tides periodically rise and fall on the water level of the ocean and waves move in an up-and-down motion along the surface of a body of water
What causes earth high tides?
Tides are caused by both the Sun and The Moon. Tides are the result of both Gravity and momentum. Gravity attracts objects. This causes water on the Earth to rise up on the side of Earth facing the Sun and the Moon. Momentum tries to continue in the same direction. This causes water on the opposite side from the Sun and the Moon to rise up and keep going in the direction it was going as Earth turned away in response to the Sun's and the Moon's gravity. The Earth is also rotating. This brings different areas of the surface into line with the directions of gravity and momentum. To observers on the Earth, it appears that the tides rise and fall two times each day. But actually, the Earth's rotation has carried the person into the higher or lower regions caused by gravity and momentum. Since the Moon is orbiting the Earth, and the Earth is orbiting the Sun, sometimes there is an alignment between all these things. This causes the highest tides because the tides of both Sun and Moon will join together. The lowest tides occur when the Earth is at a 90° angle between the Sun and Moon. The tides of the Moon and Sun are at that time subtracting from each other.
Most ocean locations have two high tides and two low tides daily because?
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth. Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides.
What kind of tide is it when the water is lower than normal high tide?
The ocean as a whole is pulled in the direction of the moon, by the moon's gravitational field (the sun also has a tidal effect, although smaller). So water pulled away from an area of low tide is pulled toward an area of high tide.
What is the rise and fall of the water along the ocean shore?
Tides
Why do the tides of the ocean rise and fall?
Because the moon pulls them to shore sideways! :)
Compare waves and tides?
Tides are the rise and fall of sea level that is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on the Earth while Waves are actually energy that moves across the surface of the water.
What is and area where rivers rise and fall with ocean tides?
an area where rivers rise and fall with ocean tides
What is the alternate rise and fall in the level of sea water?
The rise and fall is the tides.
Do tides rise and fall everyday?
Yes
The periodic daily rise and fall of ocean water?
The cyclical rise or fall of the waters of the ocean is called tide. The tides are caused by the attraction of gravities of the moon, sun, and Earth
Daily rise and fall of the ocean waters?
It is called the tide, or tides.
The cyclical rise or fall of ocean water?
tides
What are the cyclical rise and fall of ocean water?
tides
The rise and fall of ocean water are called?
Tides are the rise and fall of ocean water. They are the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the sun and moon on the rotation of the Earth.
What is the rise and the fall of water along the ocean shore?
an area where rivers rise and fall with ocean tides
