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Graphic organizer notes: Vocabulary and concepts. Gravity. http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm.
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http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm The Earth and Moon were imaged by Mariner 10 from 2.6 million kilometers while completing the first ever Earth-Moon encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning high resolution digital color image data. These images have been combined below to illustrate the relative sizes of the two bodies. From this particular viewpoint the Earth appears to be a water planet! (Courtesy NASA/JPL/Northwestern University)
http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/causes.htmhttp://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/causes.htm The water in the oceans is pulled horizontally toward the moon
http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/complexitya.htmhttp://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/complexitya.htm
Because the moon moves around the earth, there are two high tides daily 12 hrs 25.5 min apart. http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/complexitya.htm
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_earth.html http://www.princeton.edu/~pccm/outreach/scsp/water_on_earth/tides/science/causes.htm