What has the strongest effect on the tides? What has the second strongest effect?
2) What location in North America has the largest tidal range – about 15-16 meters?
3) The highest high tides and lowest low tides are called _____ tides; they occur at full and new moons when the sun and moon are _____. The lowest high tides and highest low tides are called _____ tides; they occur at 1st and 3rd quarter moons when the sun and moon are _____.
4) In our locale, we have _____ (semidiurnal/diurnal/mixed) tides with _____ (#) high and low tide(s) each lunar day.
5) Water rushing into an enclosed harbor/bay because of the rise in sea level as a tide crest approaches is a _____ _____. Water rushing out of an enclosed harbor/bay because of the fall in sea level as a tide trough approaches is a _____ _____. A time of no tide-induced currents that occurs when the tidal current changes directions is called _____ _____