A.In what directions do the bulges always point? They point in whatever direction the moon is in.
Q. What kind of tide does the observer experience when he is between a tidal bulge?
low tide
Table of Contents
- Q. What kind of tide does the observer experience when he is between a tidal bulge?
- Q. Where are Earth’s tidal bulges located?
- Q. What is the sun’s effect on the low tides?
- Q. Why doesn’t the sun affect tides more than the moon does?
- Q. Where is the largest tidal range located and what is the range?
- Q. What is the lowest tidal range?
- Q. What River has the highest tidal range?
- Q. Why do you not get a significant tidal range in Hawaii?
- Q. Where are tidal bores most common?
- Q. What may cause the tidal ranges for the Bay of Fundy and Mamaroneck to have such differences in their tidal ranges?
- Q. Why does the Bay of Fundy have such an extreme tidal range?
- Q. Where is the highest tidal range in India?
Q. Where are Earth’s tidal bulges located?
A tidal bulge occurs in the oceans on the side of the earth nearest the moon; a second tidal bulge occurs on the far side of the earth. These bulges are high tides. The areas between the tidal bulges experience low tide. Usually two high and two low tides occur each 24 hours and 50 minutes.
Q. What is the sun’s effect on the low tides?
Around each new moon and full moon, the sun, Earth, and moon arrange themselves more or less along a line in space. Then the pull on the tides increases, because the gravity of the sun reinforces the moon’s gravity. In fact, the height of the average solar tide is about 50 percent of the average lunar tide.
Q. Why doesn’t the sun affect tides more than the moon does?
The Sun, just like the Moon and the Earth, also has its own gravity which can affect the tides. Although the Sun is much larger than the Moon and has more gravity, it’s also much further away, meaning its pull on the tides is less than half as strong as the Moon’s.
Q. Where is the largest tidal range located and what is the range?
The highest tides in the world can be found in Canada at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. The highest tides in the United States can be found near Anchorage, Alaska, with tidal ranges up to 40 feet .
Q. What is the lowest tidal range?
3 feet
Q. What River has the highest tidal range?
Qiantang river
Q. Why do you not get a significant tidal range in Hawaii?
On the other hand, if the landmass has deeper water offshore—as is often the case for an island or other coastline without much of a continental shelf—the growth of the tide will be much less drastic. This is one of the reasons why Hawaii has such small tidal swings.
Q. Where are tidal bores most common?
A tidal bore is a rare natural phenomenon occurring on several rivers emptying into the Bay of Fundy, between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The surge of the incoming Fundy tide is so strong it temporarily reverses the flow of these rivers and appears as a crest of water traveling upriver.
Q. What may cause the tidal ranges for the Bay of Fundy and Mamaroneck to have such differences in their tidal ranges?
There are two main reasons for the Bay of Fundy’s huge tidal range: geography and physics. Because the head is so much narrower than the mouth, when the tide enters the bay, the water gets compressed.
Q. Why does the Bay of Fundy have such an extreme tidal range?
Fundy’s tides are the highest in the world because of an unusual combination of factors: resonance and the shape of the bay. The water in the Bay of Fundy has a natural resonance or rocking motion called seiche. The bay’s shape and bottom topography are secondary factors contributing to Fundy’s high tides.
Q. Where is the highest tidal range in India?
The greatest tidal ranges are found in the Arabian Sea, notably at Bhavanagar, India, in the Gulf of Khambhat (38 feet [11.6 metres]), and in the Gulf of Kachchh (Kutch) at Navlakhi (25.5 feet [7.8 metres]).
