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CHAPTER 10 THE TIDES Objectives 1. To learn about the regular rise and fall of the tides. 2. To investigate the tides we would expect to find on a non-rotating planet that is covered uniformly with water (equilibrium tidal theory). 3. To study the tides that actually occur and are made more complex by the presence of continents, ocean basins, and the Earth’s rotation (dynamic tidal analysis). Key Concepts Major Concept (I) The tides rise and fall in response to forces generated by the Sun and the Moon and the rotation of the Earth -Moon system about their common center of mass. The actual pattern of the tides varies from place to place around the world. Related or supporting concepts: - The rise and fall of the tides is most evident, and has the greatest impact on society, in shallow coastal waters. 118 读万卷书 行万里路 - The vertical distance between high and low tide water levels changes from one place to another around the world. - Some locations experience a diurnal tide with one high tide and one low tide each day. - Other areas experience a semidiurnal tide with two high tides and two low tides each day. When the water levels of the two high tides and of the two low tides are unequal, the tidal pattern is called a semidiurnal mixed tide that indicates the presence of combined diurnal and semidiurnal tides. Major Concept (II) Fluctuating water levels with the passage of the tides are described by a variety of specific terms. Related or supporting concepts: - When an are