10) What is the difference between diurnal, semidiurmal, and mixed semidiumal ti

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10) What is the difference between diurnal, semidiurmal, and mixed semidiumal tide cycles? 11) Based on your responses about the tides in Tacoma, what type oftidal cycle is found in Puget Sound (diumal, semidiurnal, or mixed semidiurnal)? Explain your answer, and make sure to check that you are looking at the tidal variation in one 24-hr day. Explore the following website to answer the questions below. Use the diagrams on the most recent tial data for each location: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa gov/ 12) What type of tidal cycle is found in San Diego, California? What is the range of tidal height given, from the lowest to the highest tide (use most recent given over the last 2 days)? Be sure to show your units 13) What type of tidal cycle is found in Pensacola, Florida? What is the range of tidal height? 14) What type of tidal cycle is found in Eastport, Maine? What is the range of tidal height? 15) In your own words, what causes a tsunami? 16) How does the wavelength and wave height of a tsunami in the deep ocean far from land compare to wind- generated ocean waves in the deep ocean?

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10.) Differences are as follows-

semi-diurnal tides recur at intervals of 12 and 1/2 hours whereas diurnal tides recur at intervals of 24 and 3/4 hours.Mixed-types such as mixed semi-diurnal tides are the semi-diurnal tides with a wide range of inequality based on high,low,or in both high and low tides.

11.) mixed semi-diurnal tides are found in puget sound .there are two high and one low tides each 24 hour period.

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