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Title: What kind of waves are tides?
Post by: keelyhawkins on Jan 23, 2018

What kind of waves are tides?
a. Standing waves
b. Free waves
c. Forced waves
d. Transitional waves

Title: What kind of waves are tides?
Post by: tkelems2012 on Jan 23, 2018

ANS: C
Tides are never free from the forces that cause them. They are caused by a mixture of the gravitational
force of the sun and the moon, and the motion of the Earth. Information can be found in the section
Tides Are the Longest of All Ocean Waves.

Title: What kind of waves are tides?
Post by: keelyhawkins on Jan 23, 2018