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> 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. 10/1- Waning Gibbous 10/7- Third Quarter Moon 10/15-Waning Crescent 10/20- Waxing crescent 10/27- Full Moon
 * 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.
 * The phases of moon vary due to the position of the sun, moon, and earth. During the full moon the position of the moon is behind the earth and it is getting sunlight from the sun. We see a full moon because we can see the fully lighted side which appears to us as a lighted circle, so the moon is full or also known as a Full Moon. The new moon is when the moon is closer to the sun than the Earth, therefore, the sunlight is only hitting the back of the moon, so there is no light reflecting off the moon towards the Earth so instead of a full or partially full moon lighted, and luminescent there is nothing we can see which is the new moon . The half moon is when the sunlight is reflecting on half of the moon on which we can see. A half moon happens two times a lunar cycle. It happens one-forth into the cycle and also happens when the lunar cycle is three- fourths the way done. We see a half lighted circle at night which is known as a half moon.
 * 1) View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy Bridge
 * The tides alternate from low to high everyday on a twenty four hour period because the gravity of the moon pulls the water closer to it and the sides where the tide is low it is because it is not getting pulled from the gravity of the moon.
 * 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. 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.)
 * 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 sunlight cause the phases of the moon . It affects the tides because if it is a full moon than there will be a stronger pull from the earth because the whole moon is showing but there is a new moon than there will not be a large high tide because the full moon isn't showing.
 * 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 ||> 109 ||
 * 10/29/15 ||> 99 ||
 * 10/30/15 ||> 87 ||
 * 10/31/15 ||> 72 ||

=Phases: NASA recently released photos of the Apollo Mission.= In this picture you see that the Earth is in a sideways crescent shape. The position of the moon would be a Waxing Gibbous or a Waning Gibbous.
 * 1) View the 3 images below. Explain for each image, the relative position of the sun, moon and earth that wPhases: NASA recently released photos of the Apollo Mission.

In this picture you only see a half earth because the position of the moon is in a third quarter and a first quarter position.

In this picture you see a Gibbous earth this is due to the position of the moon. The moon can be in a Waning Crescent and Waxing Crescent to see the Earth only partially covered.