Why is there a high tide on the side of the Earth closest to the Moon and not on the side farthest from the Moon?

Answer 1

The tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon on the worlds oceans. This pull causes the oceans to bulge slightly on the side of the Earth closest to the moon as the effects of gravity decrease with distance, following the inverse squared law.

Answer 2

There is a high tide on the side of Earth closest to the Moon because the Moon's gravitational pull creates a "bulge" in the water directly facing it. On the side farthest from the Moon, the gravitational force is weaker, resulting in a low tide.

Answer 3

To answer this question, it is important that you understand that the Moon has not always been where it is today. When the Moon was first formed by the collision between Earth and "Theia", it was much closer than it is today, in fact it would have filled half of the sky. Its gravitational pull was much much stronger than it is today too. Tides would have been in excess of 1000 feet, and that's one big wave. as time has gone by the Moon has receded to its current position. However even though the pull is now only about the same as lifting a piece of A4 paper, the effect is still active. However this effect is diminishing all the time, and within about 50,000,000b years the moon will have moved to a point that will no longer allow it to effect the tides, and then we will have a much lower tide than today caused solely by the sun.

Answer 4

The moon is the the thing that's pulls on different part of earth with it gravity to create tides and a high tide is much stronger than a neap tide a high tide is when the earth sun and moon are working together so of course the gravity is stronger if the the distance is closer so there will be much bigger tides.

Answer 5

Tides are an effect of the DIFFERENCE in gravitational attraction at different distances - so while its stronger on the close side (pulling water up), its also weaker on the far side, allowing water to "fall away" (not be as strongly attracted).

Answer 6

Curiously enough, yes. The tides are caused by the gravity of the Moon, but not by the Moon "pulling up on the water" as some people think; it's because while the Moon is orbiting the Earth, the Earth is also orbiting the Moon just a little, and the liquid water of the Earth is trying to follow its own orbit - with the most distant points trying to rise up in the orbit because that side of the Earth is moving too fast, while the nearside water is trying to fall into a LOWER orbit - because the Earth is moving too slowly!

Answer 7

We think of the Moon orbiting the Earth, and that's true - but from a different perspective, it's also true that the Earth goes around the Moon. The math works either way, and sometimes one point of view or another is more useful. Let's consider what gravitational forces of the Moon would do to the Earth.

Thinks that orbit closer move faster, and things that orbit further away move more slowly. If we consider a water molecule on the side of the Earth closest to the Moon, that water molecule is in closer and is moving too slowly to stay in orbit around the Moon; it tends to fall into a lower orbit. It cannot, because of the gravity of the Earth, but the water molecule is elevated so that the Moon's gravity and the Earth's are balanced.

Now let's think of a water molecule on the far side of the Earth from the Moon. It's moving in orbit with the Earth, but it's now moving too QUICKLY and tends to rise into a higher orbit around the Moon. Again, the tidal force of the Moon and the Earth's own gravity balance out causing the water to be a little higher than it should be.

But because the Earth is spinning on its axis, the Lunar tidal forces that tend to pull the water higher also cause the water to "pile up" on eastern Coastlines or V-shaped bays, so places like the Bay of Fundy (which have both!) can experience tides that are dozens of feet high.

Answer 8

Think of the Earth as being "pulled apart" due to the differential gravitational force of the Moon.

Answer 9

no it isnt

Answer 10

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