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When the Tide Comes In- A Treasure Hunt about the Ocean Tides
http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/restles1.html
1. What does the word tide mean? ___________________________________________________________________
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides01_intro.html
2. Forces exerted by what two objects cause ocean tides? _________________________________________
3. What is a high tide? _________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is a low tide? __________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is a tidal range? _______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/tides.shtml
6. Does the sun or the moon play a larger role in producing the tides? ___________________________
7. Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________________
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides05_lunarday.html
8. How many high tides occur each day? _____________________________________________________________
9. How many low tides occur each day? ______________________________________________________________
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/tides/media/supp_tide06a.html
10.What phases of the moon are the sun, moon and earth in alignment? _________________________
11.What is the name of the extra-high tides that occur when the sun and moon are pulling in
the same direction? _________________________
12.What is the name of the tide that occurs when the sun and moon are at right angles to the
Earth? ___________________________
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides07_cycles.html
13.Why does the normal number of high and low tides not happen in some places?
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14.Name one place where this is true, and tell how many high/low tides happen there.
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15. What is the most interesting thing you learned today about tides?
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