AY Honors/Tides/Answer Key

Tides

Skill Level

Unknown

Year

Unknown

Version

02.04.2025

Approval authority

Florida Conference

1

What percent of the earth's surface is covered by water?

2

What is meant by tides?

3

What celestial bodies affect the tides and what percent of gravitational pull does each exhort?

4

Define the following words:

4a

Spring tide

4b

Neap tide

4c

Mean tide

4d

Rip tide

4e

Tidal pool

4f

Ebb tide

4g

Flow

5

What is the average time period between tides and what is meant by a tidal day?

6

Not all locations have a standard tidal day. Note some places that vary from the norm and tell what the contributing factors to the variation might be.

7

Where in the world are some of the highest tides found? How high are they?

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