MoonTidesICS16BEL

-When there is a new moon the lit part of the moons is facing the other than us so it makes it looks like the moon is disappearing. A full moon is when the lit side of the moon is facing us so we can see it. So all the moons phases have to do with the way the way the sun's light is reflecting off the moon. 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. - **The tide alternates from low to high during a 24 hour period because of the moon and the suns gravitational pull. The rotation of the earth also plays a role in the alternating tides. When the two sides of the earth face the moon the moon's pull starts to pull on the water and it starts two rise to the two other sides become very low. Since the earth rotates the way it does it creates high and low tides.**
 * 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.
 * -The differences between the new moon, quarter moon, and full moon phases is the new moon looks like it is disappeared because the light isn't reflecting on it, the quarter moon looks like it's half dark and half light because it is in between the darkness and light, and the full moon is completely bright because all of the sunlight shining on it.**
 * View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy Bridge
 * Use the data from Gandy Bridge Tampa 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.)


 * 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 Tide Moon page. Then Upload the jpeg of the chart to your page.


 * 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 highest coefficient were on the 25th-28th and the lowest coefficients were on the 4th-6th. The full moon causes the high tide and the first and third quarter moons cause the low tide. The reason why it happens is when the full moon and the new moon happen the sun, moon, and earth are aligned so they are all pulling on each other which causes a high tide. When the first and third quarter moon happen they are not aligned so the pull is not as strong.**


 * Dates || 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 || 54 ||
 * 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 ||


 * 10/1= coefficient of 89. Moon phases was waning gibbous
 * 10/8= coefficient of 61. Moon phase was a waning crescent
 * 10/15= coefficient of 81. Moon phase was a waxing crescent.
 * 10/22= coefficient of 54. Moon phase was a first quarter.
 * 10/29= coefficient of 99. Moon phase was a waning gibbous.


 * 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.

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 * The phase the moon would be in would be a gibbous
 * The earth phase would be a crescent


 * The moon phase would be a 1st quarter
 * The earth phase would be a waning gibbous




 * The moon phase would be a crescent
 * The earth phase is a earth gibbous