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While the moon is slowly getting further from Earth, it is not the fault of the tides that this is happening. The moon is actually traveling ever so slightly faster then it should be to maintain its orbit, it always has been, since it was formed. So each revolution, it gets a little further away.
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Is a incoming tide a spring ebb flood or neap tide?
A simplistic answer is that the tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. During the lunar orbit around the earth, spring tides travel high up the beach, and ebb far down the beach. Neap tides only travel part way up the beach, and ebb part way down the beach.
How are low tides formed?
The Moon's Gravity Causes the waves to form.
Compare the tidal effects of spring tides on earth?
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What causes tides to be high in one part of the day and low during another?
they're so high because when the sun, moon, and earth are in a line, their gravitational pull creates a tidal bulge on earth. during neap tides, the sun, moon, and earth are at a 90 degree angle, making more even tidal bulges, making high and low tides closer together than the spring tides.
What is the Contrast between a spring tides and neap tides?
Perigee tides involve the Moon's orbit around the Earth. It does not go in a perfect circle but rather in an ellipse/oval shaped revolution. Because of that there are some points in the Moon's orbit at which the Moon is closer to the Earth. "Perigee" is the point of closest approach. With that closeness it causes a greater gravitational attraction between Earth and the Moon, pulling more water towards the Moon, causing what we know as high and low tides. "Spring tides" can occur during a perigee tide but not necessarily. A spring tide is a tide that occurs when the Sun, Earth and the Moon are nearly in a straight line, at a NEW MOON, or at a Full Moon. The highest tides happen then.
What phenomena are the results of gravity between the moon and the earth?
Tides are the result of lunar (and solar) gravity.
Are tides at their highest during neap tides?
No Neap tides are when the sun,earth, and moon form a right angle. This makes the the water on earth be pulled towards the sun and the moon. causing the tides to be very low. Spring tides are when tides are the highest because the earth,sun,and moon are in a line,causing very high tides.
What is the dominant force causing the earths tides?
The dominant force causing Earth's tides is the gravity of the moon as it revolves around us.
As the moon revolves around the earth the moons gravity pulls on the earths seas this gravitational force causes?
A tide. You're asking about the tidal force caused by the interaction of the earth and moon. The earth and moon orbit around their common point, the barycenter, which is located within the body of the earth. As the earth swings away from the barycenter, the tides are caused that are observed on the side of earth away from the moon.
How does the moon crontrol gravity on earth?
No. The earth has its own gravity. The lunar gravity causes tides on earth, but does not control earth's gravity.
Which heavenly bodies are involved in causing the Earth's tides?
the earth, moon, and sun
What are the results of gravity between the moon and earth?
Tides are the result of lunar (and solar) gravity.
The dominant factor in causing tides because of its closeness to earth?
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Why are solar tides weaker than the lunar tides much of the time?
Solar tides are usually hidden by lunar tides. The moon's gravity is greater than the sun's
What does the moon do to earth when it orbits around it?
It has an influence on the earth's water, causing the ebb and flow of tides.
What casues waves?
Tides respond to lunar gravitation. As Earth rotates on it's own axis, when the face of planet Earth is closest to the Moon, the more active ebb and neap tides will behave.
How often does moon pass over a particular spot on earth's surface causing tides as a result of its gravitational pull?
The Moon passes over a particular spot approximately every 23 hours and 10 minutes. A full cycle of tides happens TWICE in one of these lunar cycles.
