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a neap tide occurs when the moon is either 1st or 3rd quarter phase.
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What occurs when the sun and moon pull on earth at right angles to each other?
The main effect is on the tides, when the sun and moon are at right angles it produces neap tides. When in line it produces spring tides. Spring tides are abnormally high, neap tide are abnormally low
How many days apart are neap tides and spring tides?
Neap and spring tides are about 7 days apart.
The medium-sized tides that occur across the entire Earth's surface during the Quarter Moon phases are called what?
neap tides
What is a spring and neat tide?
Spring Tides Are Extreme Tides And Neap Tides Are Weaker Tides.
What are and what causes neap tides?
The moon.
When the sun the moon and earth form a right angle we have tides.?
An Neap Tide occurs -**$$**
Is the greatest difference between low and high tides occurs during a neap tide?
both spring tides and neap tides have a 20% difference from normal tides
What combination of factors produces neap tides?
A neap tide occurs when the sun and Earth make a 90 degree angle with each other. It also occurs when Earth makes a 90 degree angle with the moon.
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 the sun and moon pull on earth at right angles to each other?
The main effect is on the tides, when the sun and moon are at right angles it produces neap tides. When in line it produces spring tides. Spring tides are abnormally high, neap tide are abnormally low
What month does a neap tide occur?
A Neap tide occurs when the sun's influence partially cancels out the effect of the moon's control of the tides. The effect is strongest when the sun is at a ninety degree angle to the moon, imagine a clock face with the Earth in the middle, the moon at 12 and the sun at the 9 position, this results in a Neap tide which means that there is less variation between high and low tides.
What lunar phases occurs during neap tides?
First and third quarters
How do the changing positions of the moon earth and sun cause spring tides and neap tides?
because it is
Are tides at their highest during neap tides?
No Neap tides are when the sun,earth, and moon form a right angle. This makes the the water on earth be pulled towards the sun and the moon. causing the tides to be very low. Spring tides are when tides are the highest because the earth,sun,and moon are in a line,causing very high tides.
Why do you have two spring tides and two neap tides?
they are cuased by the moons grasity on earth and the orbit of earth around the sun
How often do neap tides ocour?
when the moon sun and earth are perpendicular
How does a neap tide happen?
Neap tides are especially weak tides. Theyoccurwhen the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun are perpendicular to one another (with respect to the Earth). Neap tides occurduring quarter moons. The Proxigean SpringTideis a rare, unusually high tide.
