What does the pull of the moon have to do with ocean tides?

Answer 1

The gravity of the Moon.

The gravitation of the Earth and the Moon work on each other. The side of the Earth nearest the Moon receives the greatest effect of the Moon's gravitational pull, creating the bulge in the ocean and high tide beneath the Moon. The bulge on the far side of the Earth is being spun away centrifugally from the center of the combined Earth-Moon mass.

Answer 2

There really isn't a force that uniquely pulls the moon toward the earth. Gravity is the force, and the force is the mutual attraction between the earth and the moon. In a very real sense, the earth and the moon are orbiting each other, and it is not just the moon orbiting the earth. However, from our vantage point on earth it is easy and convenient to think of the moon as the object doing the orbiting.

Answer 3

It is the moon's gravitational pull. The earth pulls the moon toward us and the moon has a little weaker gravitational pull but it has enough to pull the ocean. So wherever the moon goes the ocean follows. Hope you understand it answers your question

Answer 4

The earth and the moons gravitation work upon each other. The side of the earth nearest the moon receives the greatest affect of the moons gravitational pull creating the bulge in the ocean or low tide. The side furthest from the moon then rebounds from the moons gravity creating an opposite bulge.

Answer 5

The Earth doesn't actually bulge, the water (IE, oceans) does. This is the effect of the moons gravitational pull on Earth.

Answer 6

It causes a high tide.