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The Mont Saint-Michel Bay is found in Europe. The bay is part of the club of the world's most beautiful bays and is a world heritage site from the UNESCO. Due to the
significant tidal movements in this region (more than 10 meters) a great expense of the bay is uncovered at low tide.
Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundyin
Canada
TidesThese are regular rise
and fall of ocean and other bodies of water mainly as the result of moon’s gravity.
High tideIt occurs when the pull of the
moon on water is the greatest when the water is on the side of Earth
facing or away from the moon.
Low tideIt occurs when the water
fall to its lowest.
New MoonFull MoonFull Moon
SPRING tide
NEAP tide
1st QuarterMoon
3rd
QuarterMoon
•Spring tide is a high tide that is unusually high and low tides that are unusually low.•Neap tide is high tide that is not very high and low tide that is not very low.
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