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Answer» Differences between Spring Tides and Neap Tides are: | Neap Tides | Spring Tides |
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| (i) It is tide with a range considerably lower than that of the mean tidal level. | (i) It is a tide with a range considerably increased from that of the mean tidal levels. | | (ii) It occurs twice each month during Lunar quadrature. | (ii) It occurs twice each month around the time of the new moon and full moon. | | (iii) The high tides are somewhat lower and low tides are somewhat higher than average. | (iii) The high tides are somewhat lower than the average. | | (iv) Here tidal production forces do not supplement each other because the moon, the earth and the sun are at right angles. So the velocity of tidal currents slows down. | (iv) It is due to complementary gravitational effects caused when the earth, moon and sun are in a straight line. |
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