Tide+Moon+ICS16DO2


 * 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. Be specific. ** - The sun and moon affects what we see because the moon (at night) has light from the sun. The moon does not have light, the sun's light reflects off the moon onto the earth.
 * 2) ** View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy **  Bridge . -
 * 3) **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.**
 * 4) **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. Thencreate 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.)**
 * 5) **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.**
 * 6) **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.**


 * What causes the phases of the moon? Compare the relative posistions of the earth, moon, and sun to explain the differences between new moon, half moon and full moon phases. **
 * The sun and moon affects what we see because the moon (at night) has light from the sun. The moon does not have light, the sun's light reflects off the moon onto the earth. The reason why we see the different phases is because since both the earth and moon is moving, there are different angles in which the sun hits the moon which reflects light onto us. This is why we can see the moon at all. The Earth and the moon always gets half dark and half light. the reason why we see new moon, half moon, and full moon is because the moon rotates very slowly so we always see the same side of the moon. The moon also orbits around us but as quickly as we rotate, so that is why we see the different sides of the moon. how the moon is positioned affects how we see 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 highest tide in a day is when the moon is at a first or third quarter. At this time, it is night. The tides get lower at any other time because the moon is at a different area, or is any other phase of the moon. The earth's rotation and the moon's rotation affects the phases of the moon to be different and at different places around the earth, causing different tides during a 24 hour period.

** Provide an explanation for the pattern of high coefficient of tides alternating with the low coefficient of tides during the month based on therelative posistion of the earth, moon, and sun. **
 * The earth's rotation is why we have low and high tides on the earth. The low tides are when the moon is a full or new moon and the high tides are when the moon is at the sides, or 1st quarter and the 3rd quarter.

10/1/15 - Coefficient of 89. Moon Phase of Waning Gibus. 10/5/15 - Coefficient of 41. Moon Phase of Third Quarter. 10/13/15 - Coefficient of 86. Moon Phase of Waning Cresent. 10/20/15 - Coefficient of 45. Moon Phase of Waxing Cresent. 10/27/15 - Coefficient of 112. Moon Phase of Full Moon.


 * 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 ||> 58 ||
 * 10/23/15 ||> 74 ||
 * 10/24/15 ||> 89 ||
 * 10/25/15 ||> 101 ||
 * 10/26/15 ||> 110 ||
 * 10/27/15 ||> 112 ||
 * 10/28/15 ||> 10a9 ||
 * 10/29/15 ||> 99 ||
 * 10/30/15 ||> 87 ||
 * 10/31/15 ||> 72 ||

=Phases: NASA recently released photos of the Apollo Mission.= The Earth is a Waxing or Waning Cresent, and the Moon is a Waning or Waxing Gibbous. The Earth can be First or Third Quarter and the Moon can be First or Third Quarter. The Earth is a Waxing Gibbous. The Moon can be Waxing or Waning Cresent.
 * 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.