ZAMBOANGA STATE COLLEGE of MARINE SCIENCES and TECHNOLOGY

Fort Pilar, Zamboanga City

COLLEGE of MARITIME EDUCATION
MET O-2
Final Exam
Name: _________________________________ Score: ___________
Section: _______________________ Date: ____________

PART A. MULTIPLE CHOICE.

Instructions: Read the following question carefully and choose the letter that best describes the answer,
And write the letter of your choice in the space provided.

_______1. Semidiurnal tides are characterized by?

a. One daily high tide.
b. Two daily high tides, one higher than the other.
c. Two daily high tides, both of the same approximate height.
d. One daily high tide that is always higher than the high tide of the previous day.
_______2. Tidal bulges are caused and effected by the ______?
a. Centrifugal forces.
b. Gravitational pull of the moon.
c. Gravitational pull of the sun and moon.
d. All of the above.
_______3. An area with one high tide per tidal cycle is called a ______?
a. Neap tide
b. Diurnal cycle
c. Semi-diurnal cycle
d. Mixed semi-diurnal cycle
_______4. Tides are actually waves.
a. The Statement is FALSE
b. The Statement is TRUE
c. The Statement is TRUE under certain conditions
d. The Statement is FALSE under certain conditions
_______5. During a neap tide, the high tides are lower and the low tides are higher.
a. The Statement is TRUE
b. The Statement is FALSE
c. The Statement is TRUE under certain conditions
d. The Statement is FALSE under certain conditions
_______6. The wave length of a semi-diurnal tide is a quarter of the circumference of the earth.
a. The Statement is FALSE
b. The Statement is TRUE
c. The Statement is TRUE under certain conditions
d. The Statement is FALSE under certain conditions
_______7. When the spring tides occur, the high tides are _____ and the low tides are ______.
a. Lower, lower
b. Lower, higher
c. Higher, lower
d. Higher,higher
_______8. A tide cycle is 24 hours and 50 minutes instead of 24 hours because of _________.
a. The shape and size of bays
b. The gravitational pull of the sun
c. The rotation of the moon around the earth
d. The large tidal range caused by spring tides

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_______9. When the moon is at its maximum semi-monthly declination (either north or south).
The diurnal effect is at a maximum. What type of tides occur during this time?
a. Perigean tides
b. Apogean tides
c. Equatorilal tides
d. Tropic tides
_______10. Which of the following refers to the average height of two successive high water when the range of
tides is least?
a. Mean low water neap (MLWN)
b. Lowest astronomical tide (LAT)
c. Mean high water neap (MHWN)
d. Mean high water spring (MHWS)
_______11. When the moon is at the point in its orbit nearest the earth, the lunar semidiurnal range is
increased. What type of tides occur during this time?
a. Apogean tides
b. Perigean tides
c. Spring tides
d. Neap tides
_______12. What does the term “TIDE” refer to?
a. Horizontal movement of the water
b. Vertical movement of the water
c. Mixing tendency of the water
d. Salinity content of the water
_______13 Slack water occurs when there is?
a. No horizontal motion of the water
b. No vertical motion of the water
c. A weak ebb or flood current
d. Neither A or B
________14. The movement of water away from shore or downstream is called what type of current?
a. Reversing
b. Flood
c. Ebb
d. Slack
________15 Which of the following describes an ebb current?
a. Horizontal movement of water away from the land following low tide
b. Horizontal movement of water towards from the land following low tide
c. Horizontal movement of water away from land following high tide
d. Horizontal movement of water towards the land following high tide
________16. Neap tides or the tides that have lower highs and higher lows occur when the moon is at?
a. Opposition with the earth and sun
b. Conjunction with the earth and sun
c. Quadrature with the earth and sun
d. Apogee
________17. Spring tides or tides that have higher highs and lower lows occur when the moon is at?
a. Opposition or in conjunction with the earth and sun
b. Quadrature with the earth and sun
c. Apogee
d. Perigee
________18. The diurnal inequality of tides is caused by?
a. The moon being at perigee
b. The declination of the moon
c. Changing weather conditions
d. The moon being at apogee
________19. The period at high or low water during, which there is no change in the height of the water is
called?
a. Range of the tide
b. Plane of the tide
c. Stand of the tide
d. Reversing tide

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________20. An important lunar cycle affecting the tidal cycle is called the modal period. How long is this cycle?
a. 16 days
b. 19 years
c. 6 years
d. 18 months
________21. The reference datum used in determining the height of land features on most chart is?
a. Mean high water
b. Half tide level
c. Mean sea level
d. Mean low water
________22. The datum from which the predicted heights of tides are reckoned in the tide tables is?
a. The highest possible level
b. Mean low water
c. The same as that used for the charts of the locality
d. Mean high water
________23. How many slack tidal currents usually occur in each day?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
________24. The drift and set of tidal stream river and ocean currents refer to the?
a. Position and area of the current
b. Speed and direction toward which the current flows
c. Type and characteristics of the current flow
d. None of the above
________25. The velocity of current in large coastal harbours is?
a. Unpredictable
b. Predicted in the tidal current tables
c. Generally constant
d. Generally too weak
________26. The date at which the soundings were taken regardless of method?
a. Chart datum
b. Tidal levels
c. Sounding depth
d. Tidal heights
_______27. What is the tide level for a given area is calculated by averaging the height of all of the lowest tides
for that area over a certain period of time?
a. Chart datum
b. Tidal heights
c. Tidal levels
d. Zero tide level
_______28. What are tides that occur when the earth, moon and sun are aligned, and the tidal range between
high and low tide is at its maximum?
a. Neap tides
b. Spring tides
c. Lunar tides
d. Solar tides
_______29. What are the tides caused by the moon? The sun? Respectively.
a. Lunar and Solar tides
b. Solar and Lunar tides
c. Selenium and Lunacy tides
d. Lunacy and Selenium tides
_______30. What do you call the rise and fall of earth’s surface water?
a. Ocean
b. Wave
c. Tides
d. Surf

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PART B. TIDAL CALCULATION
Instructions: Calculate the following question and write your answers on the space provided.
A. Find the times and height of high tide and low tide waters of ENGLAND PORTSMOUTH on February 2004,
the Secondary port of PORT FOLLY INN.
Given:
25th Wednesday
0218 – 4.5m
0742 – 1.0m
1430 – 4.3m
1957 – 1.1m

Standard Port
TIME HEIGHT
HIGH WATER LOW WATER HIGH WATER LOW WATER RANGE
1. 3. 5. 7. 9.
2. 4. 6. 8. 10.

11. 12.

Seasonal change Standard Port

Differences
13. 15. 17. 19.
14. 16. 18. 20.

21. 22.

Seasonal change Secondary Port

Secondary Port
23. 25. 27. 29.
24. 26. 28. 30.

Duration
31.
32.

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Approved by:

2/0 KATHERINE LIM YNIEGO CAPT. EDMUNDO P. LAURENTE C/E CHRISTALYN DR CHIONG
Instructor BSMT, Program Adviser CME, Dean

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“Clean Seas and Safer Ships”

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