MB Quiz 1/7

What's the difference between tides and currents?

• tides move horizontally while currents move vertically

• tides move vertically while currents move horizontally

• Tides are only really influenced by wind patterns

• Currents are primarily impacted by the gravitational pull of the moon

Spring tides produce the ​ (a)   highs and the ​ (b)   ​ lows.

• Lowest
• Highest
• Moderate

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Solar tide is stronger than a lunar tide

• True

• False

____________ force of the rotation of the earth can also produce high tides

• centrifugal
• acceleration

• torque

• friction

Diurnal tidal patterns have :

• 2 high tides & 1 low tide daily

• 1 high tide and 1 low tide daily

• 2 high tides and 2 low tides daily

• Varying amounts of both high and low tides daily

Dynamic tide theory suggests that there are other factors influencing tidal patterns, like:

• Friction

• Ocean basin size

• Rotation of the earth

• all of the above

Most common type of tidal pattern is:

• Diurnal

• Mixed

• Semidiurnal

• Equal distribution of each

Which type of tidal pattern features two high tides and two low tides each day, with each high and low being about the same height?

• Diurnal

• Semidiurnal

• Mixed semidiurnal

• Bimodal