🌊 TIDES & THE MOON
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GRAVITY TUG
THE MOON LIFTS WATER
Stand on a beach and you can watch the sea level rise and fall. Tides are mainly caused by the Moon's gravity pulling on Earth. The pull is strongest on the side of Earth facing the Moon. Ocean water heaps up into a bulge there. Earth and the Moon are a linked system moving through space together. The Moon does not just pull Earth. It pulls the oceans hardest on the near side.
🌙 PULL
The Moon's gravity tugs on Earth's oceans. The near side feels the strongest pull, creating a tidal bulge.
TIDES!
OCEAN
🌊 Water responds to gravity
🏖️ Beaches flood and drain
🏖️ Beaches flood and drain
MOON
🌙 Main driver of daily tides
🔗 Earth-Moon system moves together
🔗 Earth-Moon system moves together