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Yes, a straight line (180 degree angle). A neap tide is when the moon, Earth, and sun make a 90 degree angle.

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An unusually high tide is called a-?

An unusually high tide is always called a spring tide.


When the Sun and Moon line up their gravitational pull causes what type of tide?

When the moon is full, the earth expierences a spring tide. A spring tide includes High high tides and low, low tides. This is due to the gravitational pull of the sun is cooperating with the moons gravitational pull therefore creating high tides on opposite ends of the earth and the same for the lows.


What tide is created just after the new moon and full moon phase?

Spring tide


When the sun moon and Earth are lined up in a line during the new moon and full moon phase what type of tide occurs?

Spring tides.


What is an equinoctial spring tide?

When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon. When the moon's gravitational force and the sun's gravitational forces are parallell the spring tide, or the maximum difference between high and low tides. When the gravitational forces are perpendicular to each other the least difference between the tides are experienced. That condition is called "neap tide.

Related Questions

What tides are produced when the sun the moon and earth are all in line?

spring tide


What tides occur when the sun moon and earth line up?

It is a Spring Tide.


What is a perigean spring tide?

A perigean spring tide is when the Moon is closest to the Earth during the spring tide.


An unusually high tide is called a-?

An unusually high tide is always called a spring tide.


When the Sun and Moon line up their gravitational pull causes what type of tide?

When the moon is full, the earth expierences a spring tide. A spring tide includes High high tides and low, low tides. This is due to the gravitational pull of the sun is cooperating with the moons gravitational pull therefore creating high tides on opposite ends of the earth and the same for the lows.


What tide is created just after the new moon and full moon phase?

Spring tide


When the sun moon and Earth are lined up in a line during the new moon and full moon phase what type of tide occurs?

Spring tides.


When is next proxigean spring tide?

Usually the proxigean tides happen when there is constructive interference of the lunar and solar tide bulges (a spring tide) AND when the moon is closest to earth (perigee). These two phenomena have to coincide for this to happen. If you can find a matching date between these two, you will find a date for an upcoming proxigean tide.


Differentiate waves and tides and differentiate neap tide and spring tide?

Wave is a movement in the water surface under vertical direction and is caused by wind. The stronger the wind is, so is the wave. Tide is a natural phenomenon, a regular and periodical oscillation of water. In theory, in terms of physical matter, tide is caused by the gravitational force of the moon and certainly by that of the sun as well. Neap tide is weak tide occurring when the gravitational forces of the moon and the sun are perpendiculare to one another. It occurs during quarter moons. Spring tide is strong time occurring when the earth, the sun and the moon are in a line. It occurs in the full and new moon.


What is an equinoctial spring tide?

When the moon is full or new, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are combined. At these times, the high tides are very high and the low tides are very low. This is known as a spring high tide. Spring tides are especially strong tides (they do not have anything to do with the season Spring). They occur when the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon are in a line. The gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun both contribute to the tides. Spring tides occur during the full moon and the new moon. When the moon's gravitational force and the sun's gravitational forces are parallell the spring tide, or the maximum difference between high and low tides. When the gravitational forces are perpendicular to each other the least difference between the tides are experienced. That condition is called "neap tide.


What causes a spring tide to occur in months?

Spring tides happen during full moon and new moon. The additional gravitational force of the sun, causes the tides to be higher (springs).


What is a sentence for spring tide?

They are then transported back inside estuaries on the subsequent spring tide.Shoreline intertidal communities span the area between the mean high water line and lowest spring tide level.One spring tide range per month is usually higher than the other, a consequence of the moon's distance and declination.Spawning zones moved up and down the beach foreshore as the high tide line shifted diurnally and daily over spring tidecycles.For instance, a spring tide is usually accompanied by stronger tidal currents than a neap tide.