tides

• what happens as the moon moves around the earth?

  it attracts everything on the earth
• how does the moon affect the sea near it

  it attracts the sea creating a high tide
• a second high tide is also formed on the opposite side of the earth of the moon
• the suns gravitational pull has a lesser but still significant effect on tides
• what happens when the sun and the moon are aligned?

  we get the highest tides of the month (spring tides)
• what happens when the sun and moon are at a 90 degrees

  we get a lower tide (neap tide)