Question

What is the vertical movement of the surface of a body of water called?

Answer 1

Answering the question, the vertical movement of the surface of a water body is called Tide.

Further Explanation

Tides are one the major movement of a water body. Other notable movements are:

• Waves

• Ocean currents

Tides are usually long-period waves which move through the oceans in accordance to forces put out by the sun and moon.

Tides are known to originate in the oceans and further move along the coastlines where they fluctuate in rising and falling patterns, across the sea surface.

The rise and fall of the Tides are particularly described as high and low tide respectively. High tides occur when the highest part of a wave reached a particular place. Low tide occurs when the wave it at its lowest part at a particular place.

Notably, a horizontal movement of water which is in line with the rise and fall of the tide is called tidal current.

However, there are three types of Tides  

• Diurnal Tide
• Semi-diurnal Tide
• Mixed Tide

Diurnal Tide

This particular type of Tide has just one high tide and a corresponding low tide per day.

Semi-Diurnal Tide

Semi-Diurnal Tides have two occurrences of both high and low tides in each day.

Mixed Tide

This type of tide also has two occurrences of both high and low tides in each day, but at unequal levels in terms of height.

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• Tide
• Waves
• Oceans
• Diurnal
• Semi-Diurnal
• Mixed

Answer 2

The vertical movement of a surface of a body of water is called tide. Tide is the alternate rising and falling of a body of water at a particular time and in a particular place as a result of the combined effects of the gravitational pull exerted by the moon and the star.