What is the tide?
In: Physics
The tide is the moon pulling on earth’s oceans.
The moon may be smaller than earth and a quarter million miles away, but while we don’t feel the effects of its gravity, the sloshing liquid of the ocean does.
Enough to give a bit of a tug on the water.
Here’s a pretty good gif to show it.
[https://i.gifer.com/7ZtW.gif](https://i.gifer.com/7ZtW.gif)
Essentially as the earth spins, the side of the earth closest to the moon and the part furthest away experience high tide, then as the earth keeps spinning those areas start working towards low tides.
You can get extremely high and extremely low tides at certain points in the moons orbit when it and the sun both stack their gravity together to influence our oceans.
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