TIDEMOONICS16ALV

The light of the sun is the cause of the phases of the moon. You can't see a new moon, because the light of the sun is facing the side that you cannot see, therefore it is mainly a shadow, that blends into the night sky, and is directly between the Earth and sun. quarter moon is when the light is hitting half of the moon; the moon sun and Earth are at a 90 degree angle. The full moon is when the light of the sun is hitting the surface of the moon that we can see perfectly, because it's in perfect alignment with the sun and the Earth. The alternation of the tides are caused because the hydrosphere reacts to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. There are 2 tides, because the Earth rotates in and out of the moons gravitational pull in 24 hours.
 * ** 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. **
 * ** View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy Bridge **** 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. **
 * ** 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.) **


 * ** 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. **

The waning gibbous and crescent, plus the full moon is probably the highest of the coefficients of the phases of the moon. The waxing moons and the quarter moon. are the lowest of the coefficients. The full moon has the highest coefficient because the gravity is pulling away from the moon and sun.
 * ** 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. **

10/01/15 - 89- waning gibbous 10/05/15 - 41- half 10/12/15 - 86- waning crescent 10/20/15 - 45 -waxing crescent 10/27/15 - 112 - full moon
 * How does the phases of the moon effect the tide?**

In the first photo, the Earth is a crescent, because it would be a waning gibbous from the moon's view point. In the second photo, the Earth is a quarter Earth, because it was a quarter moon. And, in the third picture, the Earth looks like it's a crescent so it's a gibbous on the moon.
 * **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.  **