Tides

Question 1

What is a tide?

Answer 1

A predictable, daily rise and fall of sea and ocean levels.

Question 2

How many times a day do we have high tide?

Answer 2

Twice.

Question 3

How are tides formed?

Answer 3

Tides are formed by the moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth but since the moon cant actually pull the Earth the Earth will also pull back which creates a bulge on bot sides of the moon like East and West will have Low tide but North and South will only have High tide. This happens twice a day. And we call this a bulge.

Question 4

How are spring tides formed? and what is a spring tide?

Answer 4

A spring tide is the a tide that occurs only twice a month and is the biggest tide of that month because when the sun and moon in line with the Earth the gravitational force pulls it even more.

Question 5

What is a neap tide and how is it formed?

Answer 5

A neap tide appears twice a month and is a little bigger than low tide it forms by the Sun and the Earth in lining with each other without the moon helping.

Question 6

What is a Intertidal Zone?

Answer 6

A intertidal zone is an area of a shoreline that lies between the high tide and low tide line.

Question 7

What are the five main intertidal zones?

Answer 7

• Subtidal Zone
• Low Tidal Zone
• Mid Tidal Zone
• High Tidal Zone
• Splash/Spray Zone

Question 8

What animals live in the low tidal zone?

Answer 8

Star fish, Sea anemone, isopods etc.

Question 9

What animals live in the mid tidal zone?

Answer 9

Mussels, isopods and sea star etc.

Question 10

What animals live in the high tidal zone?

Answer 10

Barnacles, limpets and sculpin etc.

Question 11

What animals live in the splash/spray zone?

Answer 11

Isopods, periwinkle snail and hermit crab. etc.