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Ocean Tides
Affected by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun, sea levels rise and fall on a daily basis. Ask questions here about high tide, low tide, spring tide and neap tide.
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What causes tides and what affects their heights?
Tides are caused by the interaction of Earth, the moon, and the sun. Changes in the positions of Earth, the moon, and the sun affect the heights of the tides during a month.
Where does the world's shortest tide occur?
I believe it's the Mississippi, with the Bristol Channel being the second fastest.
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.
150 feet deep. you will this on the travel channel. it comes on rarely so check it everyday.
How are dry land tides different from ocean tides?
Ocean tides are controlled by the moon's gravitational pull on the worlds oceans, a current is the flow of water in a somewhat circular system. a tide is like taking a bowl of water and tilting it so that one side is deeper that the other, and a current is like taking a mixer to it and stirring it around.
What is is most frequently responsible for changes in ocean tides?
it is the gravitational pull of the moon and also the sun.
When something tides you over, it keeps you going for the time being.
Example
You take your camera outside on a sunny day, but you have forgotten the lens hood. You make an improvised hood out of a roll of paper and an elastic band. That tides you over until you get the hood.
What is the interval between two primary tides?
Approximately 7.3825 days. That is one quarter of the synodic period of 29.53 days for the moon to go from one phase to the next same phase. Spring tide is when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are lined up with each other, and the Sun's and Moon's gravities maximally reinforce each other, and neap tide is when they form an angle of 90 degrees, with the Earth at the vertex, and the Sun's and Moon's gravities maximally cancel each other out.
it works by a spring the spring is pulled by the moons pull and graphs it by telling you if its high tide or low tide.
What do you call the largest tides?
the different tides are high tide, low tide, neaptide, and spring tide. high tide is when the moon is pulling the water into the land on on side of the earth, but on the closest, it is low tide, because it is also pulling it away from land. neap tide is when every thing is eutral, and the same, balanced. the spring tide it when its unnaturally high, or just unnaturally low...... just higher, or lower than high or low tides.
High tides form when the moon's gravity pulls on the side of the Earth facing the sun and facing away from the sun. This forms high tides
How long passing between high tides?
Usually the tides last about 6 to 7 hours then they become low tide or high.
The highest and lowest tides are known as the spring tides. When do these tides occur?
this is called EbbTide
How many high and low tides occur in one day?
6. There are 12 hours between high tides and low tides occur "exactly" halfway between them.
Why is it important to know about moon tides?
There are many important practical reasons - but one of the most important is so that you know when the low tide is so that you can most efficiently dig clams. Oh - also there may be some importance if you are a captain of an ocean-going ship that is exceedingly tall that needs to enter/exit a harbor that has a low bridge or that needs to enter/exit ports such as Portland, OR. USA. If you're an engineer responsible for designing a sea-wall or dike, tides in combination with storm surge estimates will be very critical in creating a good and safe design. These are but a few reasons - there are many more.
What special tide occurs during a full and new moon?
We get high tides and low tides every day, but the size of those highs and lows varies. At new Moon and full Moon, the Sun's and Moon's gravitational pulls reinforce each other so high tides are higher and low tides are lower. To put it another way, the tidal range is greatest at these times. This is called a spring tide.
