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What causes the phases of the moon is the light of the sun. The new moon is when the moon isn't visible since it's between the earth and the sun and the side facing us is not lit up by the sun, and its directly between the earth and sun.The quarter moon is when only half of the moon is visible because the moon, sun, and earth are at a 90 degree angle, and it is right next to the earth. A full moon is when the whole lit up side of the moon is visible because it's in an approximate alignment with the sun and earth, and the earth is between the moon and sun. > **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.** Tides alternate because the hydrosphere reacts to the gravitational pull from the moon AND the sun. There are 2 tides because of how earth rotates in and out of the moon's gravitational pull in 24 hours. The high coefficients are the waning gibbous, waning crescent, and the full moon. The low coefficients were the quarter moon and the waxing crescent. The reason the full moon has the highest coefficient is because the gravity is pulling from the sun AND the 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.**
 * **2. View the example of the tide chart for the Gandy Bridge for a day. 2015 Tide Chart for Gandy Bridge**
 * **3. 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.)**
 * **4. 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.**
 * **5. 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.**

How does the phase of the moon effect the tides?
 * 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 ||

10/01/15 - 89 - waning gibbous 10/05/15 - 41 - quarter moon 10/12-13/15 - 86 - waning crescent 10/20/15 - 45 - waxing crescent 10/27/15 - 112 - full moon

In the first picture, the earth is in a crescent phase because it would be a gibbous on the moon. In the second picture, the earth is what seems to be a quarter earth since it was a quarter moon. In the third picture, the earth is in a gibbous phase so its a crescent phase on the moon.
 * **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.**