AY Honor Tides Answer Key
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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?