Name______________________________________________Date____________Hour____Table____
Make a prediction about the answer to each question. Put a star next to the answer that you think is
correct for each question. Watch the video about Air Pressure and Wind. Record the answer for each
question on the line before the number as you watch the video.
Ocean Tides
________1. What is a tide?
A. an extreme pull from the gravity of the
Sun
B. something that happens to the ocean
every two days
C. a cyclical patter of temperatures in seas
and oceans
D. a continual rise and fall of water in seas
and oceans
________2. What is the Moon’s role in causing
tides?
A. Its phases make the tides rise and fall.
B. Its gravity causes the water level on Earth
to change.
C. Its inertia works with its craters to make
tides.
D. It has no affect at all on Earth’s tides
___ _____3. On Which side of the Earth do high
tides occur?
A. the sides closest to and farthest away
from the Moon
B. at the Equator and the Poles
C. only on the sides that are closest to the
Moon
D. only the sides that are farthest away from
the Moon
________4. When the Moon and the Sun are on
opposite sides of the Earth, they work together to
form an extremely high tide. What is this tide
called?
A.
B.
C.
D.
neap tide
sweep tide
spring tide
neat tide
_______5. What causes high tide on the side of
the Earth opposite the Moon?
A. The pull of the Sun on the side of the
Earth opposite the Moon causes a high
tide.
B. The tilt of Earth on its axis causes different
seasons, such as spring, which creates
tides.
C. The Moon pulls solid Earth toward itself,
which makes water bulge on the opposite
side.
D. The Oppositional Gravitational Force of
the Moon pulls the water to the side
farthest from itself.
________6. How do the Sun and Moon work
together to create a neap tide?
A. by forming a right angle with Earth and
creating an extreme gravitational pull
B. by forming a right angle with Earth and
canceling out each other’s gravitational
pulls
C. by aligning on opposite sides of Earth and
creating an extreme gravitational pull
D. by aligning on opposite sides of Earth and
canceling out each other’s gravitational
pulls
________7. Which of these is true about how
often tides occur?
A. All tides occur once a week.
B. Tides have no pattern
C. High tides and low tides occur twice a
month, and spring tides and neap tides
occur twice a year.
D. High tides and low tides occur twice a day,
and neap tides and spring tides occur
twice a month