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Questions Related to movements of ocean and sea water

Water waves are a manifestation of ______ moving through the ocean.

  1. Heat

  2. Density

  3. Energy

  4. Velocity


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Waves are actually the energy, not the water as such, which moves across the ocean surface. Water particles only travel in a small circle as a wave passes. Wind provides energy to the waves. Wind causes waves to travel in the ocean and the energy is released on shorelines.

Beaches are formed due to the action of ________.

  1. tide

  2. current

  3. wave

  4. wind


Correct Option: C

Each day how many high and low tides are there?

  1. 2 high tides and 2 low tides

  2. 1 high tide and 2 low tides

  3. 2 high tides and 1 low tide

  4. 1 high tide and 1 low tide


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

2 low tides and 2 high tides are experienced every lunar day, 

i.e., 24 hours and 50 minutes.

What are known as Spring Tides?

  1. When sun and moon are aligned causes strong high and low tides

  2. When sun and moon are not aligned causes strong high and low tides

  3. When sun and moon are aligned causes only low tides

  4. When sun and moon are not aligned causes only high tides


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Tide with the greatest difference between the high and low tide, 

that occurs just after a new or full moon is a spring tide.

A stone drop from height 'h' reaches at earth surface in 1 sec. If the some stone taken to moon and drop freely from height h then it will reaches at the surface of moon in the time:

  1. $\sqrt { 6 } sec$

  2. 9 sec

  3. $\sqrt { 3 } sec$

  4. 6 sec


Correct Option: A

When does spring tides occur?

  1. During full moon and new moon

  2. During quarter moon

  3. Only during full moon

  4. Only during new moon


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Tide with the greatest difference between the high and low tide, that occurs just after a new or full moon is a spring tide.

Offshore, in the deep ocean the difference in tides is usually less than: 

  1. 1.5 feet

  2. 1.6 feet

  3. 1.4 feet

  4. 1.3 feet


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Offshore in the deep ocean the difference in tides is usually less than 1.6 feet. The highest tides can however have a range of 44.6 feet, observed in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.

Tides are not caused by the direct pull of the moon's gravity. Is the statement true or False

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tides are the result of the gravitation pull of the Moon on the Earth's water body.


Spring tides are especially strong tides. Is statement true or false

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tide with the greatest difference between the high and low tide, that occurs just after a new or full moon is a spring tide.

Hence, these tides are the strongest tides.

What are known as tides?

  1. Alternating rise and fall in sea level with respect to land

  2. Alternating rise in sea level with respect to land

  3. Alternating fall in sea level with respect to land

  4. None


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Rise and fall of the surface of the Earth's water body due to the gravitation pull of the Moon and the Sun on the Earth is tides.