Name: ________________________________________________________ Strand: _____________________ Date: ___________________
Directions: The diagram below shows tide data in New York Harbor collected by NOAA at The Battery, NY
for one week in May 2013. Use the diagram and your knowledge of Earth Science to answer the questions
below.
Weekly Tide Prediction in Feet
Time Zone: LST/LDT
Datum: MLLW
THE BATTERY, NY Station Id: 8518750
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
Analysis:
1. Describe the general trend between water height and time. (Hint: What does the shape of the graph look like?)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
2. How many low tides occur each day? ______________________
3. How many high tides occur each day? _____________________
4. Approximately how many hours separate the high and low tide? __________________
5. Do the high tides occur at the same exact time each day? _________________________________________________
Suggest an explanation.____________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
6. Approximate, what time will be the next high tide on 05/23? _________________
7. Approximate, what time will be the next low tide on 05/23? __________________
Conclusion:
What inferences/conclusions can we make about tides from observing the data in NY Harbor?
Name: ________________________________________________________ Strand: _____________________ Date: ___________________
Directions: The diagram below shows tide data in New York Harbor collected by NOAA at The Battery,
NY for several days in May 2014. Use the diagram and your knowledge of Earth Science to answer the
questions below.
THE BATTERY, NY Station Id: 8518750
Weekly Tide Prediction in Feet
Time Zone: LST/LDT
Datum: MLLW
Analysis:
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
1. Describe the general trend between water height and time. (Hint: What does the shape of the graph look like?)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
2. How many low tides occur each day? ______________________
3. How many high tides occur each day? _____________________
4. Approximately how many hours separate the high and low tide? __________________
5. Do the high tides occur at the same exact time each day? _________________________________________________
Suggest an explanation.____________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
6. Approximate, what time will be the next high tide on 05/23? _________________
7. Approximate, what time will be the next low tide on 05/23? __________________
Conclusion:
What inferences/conclusions can we make about tides from observing the data in NY Harbor?