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4. Sketch the alignment of the Sun, Moon and Earth at full moon.

What is the name for the tides that occur during this alignment?

5. From your sketches, which lunar phase would you expect to be associated with the

highest tides?

6. Is this what you observed with your data?

7. Sketch the alignment of the Sun, Moon and Earth at first quarter moon or last (third)

quarter moon.

What is the name for the tides that occur during either of these alignments?

8. Explain why this alignment results in lower high tides than at full moon or new moon.

Tide Data from St. Simons Island, Georgia, for March

2005

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