Sentences with word «neap»

Tides in Indonesia change only about three feet during neap tides and up to 8 feet during the full and new moon periods.

A short window to surf can be found on neap low tides if your timing is right.

NEAP scores have improved significantly over the past decade.

Mr. Johnson who ran for the Atlanta school board and has had opinion pieces published by the Atlanta Journal - Constitution, shared data from the just released NEAP testing.

«In jobs, I intend to establish a programme called NEAP — Not In Education Apprenticeship training.

According to NEAP data released earlier this year, 40 percent to 48 percent of Maryland students in math and reading are considered proficient or advanced.

The tidal range will change slightly each day due to local weather conditions and as the cycle of the moon moves around the earth from neaps tides to spring tides.

40 b. Neap Tides Earth, Moon, and Sun form right angles and work against each other High Tides are lower and Low Tides are higher than normal

We have some unusually low neap tides right now and with the long period swell, there is just not much water on the reefs when the waves start sucking out.

Life began in the sea, and the neap tides and the spring tides run within us whether we know it or not, and on that inner tide in all of us rocks gently at her mooring the boat that we will own, now or later, soon or some day.

And at night we walk outside and feel the breeze and look at the moon and know that it is a spring tide or a neap tide, and the tide inside us is the same, and, rocking gently at her mooring, is the boat, the boat that is really ours, and now.

It is the neap tides that are best for Channel swimmers.

For you've got to have a reasonably calm sea along with your neap tide, and not even the Admiralty can predict how the wind will blow on any particular day.

On the neaps, the tidal flow runs around 1 1/2 knots; on the spring tides it's almost twice that.

And, mind, boats and pilots reserved, official observers from the association standing by and swimmers from every nation just waiting for a calm day on a neap tide.

''... So, twice a month, when the neap tide occurs, you get about five swimming days if — and it's a big if — if the weather is fair, too.

Instead, the researchers speculate that the birds were responding to movements of their aquatic prey timed to the spring - neap tide cycle, a hypothesis that could be confirmed through a study jointly tracking predator and prey abundance.

Many birds rely on the shallow water of the intertidal zone for foraging, but this habitat appears and disappears as the tide ebbs and flows, with patterns that go through monthly cycles of strong «spring» and weak «neap» tides.

Types of tides: Spring and Neap tides

At worst, and very likely, NEAP and all massive testing program, have done severe and perhaps irreparable harm to the nation.

NEAP has been around since 1969 in one form or another.

But just to make the point even more clear, the NEAP scores over the last 10 years by National School Lunch Eligibility for the three states quoted by CCER, (NJ, MA, and CT) bear out Dianne's points that poverty does matter and it's not «an excuse.»

He came to this conclusion in part by looking at the effect on testing results due to varying quality in state standards on the National Education Performance Assessments (NEAP).

At City Springs, which hosted the press conference to announce the NEAP results in Baltimore, students are taught reading through a prescribed program that includes having students tap to help them learn to stop at commas and periods.

It changed with each influx and retreat of water and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they had read the place well enough to escape its insidious currents.

They are NEAP...

They are NEAP (National Eco Tourism Accreditation Program) member and work closely with marine researchers, conservation and protection agencies.

During the neap tides the change is minimal and does not affect the wave at all, one can surf all day on the high and low tides.

As we know this is directly related to spring or neap tides.

Neap tides occur when we see a waxing and / or waning moon.

A neap tide is where we don't see much difference between low tide and high tide.

Typically this stage of the tide occurs roughly 2.5 hours after a Spring Tide and 2 hours after a neap tide.

Is the water higher during a neap tide or a spring tide?

Neap Tide — Forces of the sun and moon working against one another.

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