MoonTidesICS16Jar

Assignment:
Students will explain the impact of objects in space on each other including: 1. the Sun on the Earth including seasons and gravitational attraction 2. the Moon on the Earth, including phases, tides, and eclipses, and the relative position of each body.

Create a wiki page called TideMoon CodeName. The answers to the questions below and the spreadsheet and chart will go on your wiki page.



Read Moon Phases for explanation of diagram above.

For an explanation read Earth Science for Kids

> Using the positions of the moon relative to a location on earth, explain why the tides alternate from low to high during a 24 hour period and why there are usually 2 high tides alternating with low tides each day. IThe closer the moon is to the earth, the more its gravity will affect our surroundings. If the Moon is on the northern hemisphere of the earth, then all the water from the South will travel to the north because the moons gravity is pulling it. This alternates because the positions are always moving.
 * 1) View the top diagram above. Compare the relative positions of the earth, moon and sun to explain the differences between new moon, half moon and full moon phases. You will get a full moon when it is facing the sun and we are facing directly away from the sun. We get a full moon when we are directly facing daylight. Then the moons shadow will be facing us because the lit part the moon is facing away from us. We see half moons when the moon is not at in front or behind the earth but next to it. then the sun will shine on one side of the moon and from our angle, we will be able to see only half.
 * 2) View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy Bridge
 * 1) Use the data from Gandy Bridge TidesTampa Bay Tides to create a spreadsheet in Open Office with the coefficient of the tides for the days in the month of October, 2015. Then create a line graph of the data. Indicate that the first row and first columns are labels. Be sure to label the X and Y axis, and to provide a title. Be sure to include units. (Note: On the Tide Tables there are tidal coefficients which tell us the amplitude of the tide forecast (difference in height between the consecutive high tides and low tides in any given area). The highest possible tidal coefficient is 118, corresponding to the greatest high or low tide there can be, excluding meteorological effects. Tidal coefficients are calculated from the following parameters or from the sun and the moon: straight ascension, declination, parallax and the distance between the Earth and the celestial body.)
 * 2) Save the Tide Height spreadsheet as 8 last name initial tide. Save it as an html document. Saving it as an html will convert the chart to a jpeg. Copy the spreadsheet data and paste it on your TideMoon page. Then Upload the jpeg of the chart to your page.
 * 3) View the Moon Phases October 2015 on the same Gandy Bridge Tides . Find the moon phases for the high coefficients and low coefficients on the graph.Provide an explanation for the pattern of high coefficient of tides alternating with the low coefficient of tides during the month based on the relative position of the earth, moon and sun. The pattern of high and low coefficient tides is caused by where the moon is located and in what phase it is currently in. The moons gravity attracts water, which is why there are high tides at places where the moon is near. There are usually low tides everywhere except in the exact opposite place of where the moon is at. This alternates because the moon is constantly moving around the earth so the tide moves along with it.

=Phases: NASA recently released photos of the Apollo Mission.=
 * Date || Tide Coefficient ||
 * 10/01/15 || 89 ||
 * 10/02/15 || 73 ||
 * 10/03/15 || 57 ||
 * 10/04/15 || 45 ||
 * 10/05/15 || 41 ||
 * 10/06/15 || 44 ||
 * 10/07/15 || 52 ||
 * 10/08/15 || 61 ||
 * 10/09/15 || 70 ||
 * 10/10/15 || 77 ||
 * 10/11/15 || 83 ||
 * 10/12/15 || 86 ||
 * 10/13/15 || 86 ||
 * 10/14/15 || 85 ||
 * 10/15/15 || 81 ||
 * 10/16/15 || 75 ||
 * 10/17/15 || 67 ||
 * 10/18/15 || 58 ||
 * 10/19/15 || 49 ||
 * 10/20/15 || 45 ||
 * 10/21/15 || 49 ||
 * 10/22/15 || 58 ||
 * 10/23/15 || 74 ||
 * 10/24/15 || 89 ||
 * 10/25/15 || 101 ||
 * 10/26/15 || 110 ||
 * 10/27/15 || 112 ||
 * 10/28/15 || 109 ||
 * 10/29/15 || 99 ||
 * 10/30/15 || 87 ||
 * 10/31/15 || 72 ||
 * 1) View the 3 images below. Explain for each image, the relative position of the sun, moon and earth that would result in the phase of the earth as seen in each of the photos. For each picture indicate what the corresponding phase of the moon would be when viewed from earth on the same day each of the photos of the earth was taken.

The sun in this photo is upward. I know this because the light is on the top part of the earth and the shadow is on the bottom part of the earth. Seeing it from the moon, it looks like it is currently a crescent. If you look at the moon from earth, it would be a gibbous.

The earth is in the quarter phase if you look at it from the moon. I know this because the sun is shining on it but it looks like only half of the earth is light. If you looked at the moon from the earth, it would be a quarter moon also.

This phase of the earth is a gibbous because the sun is shining on it but there is a small part covered in darkness. If we were looking at the moon from the earth, we would see a cresent