Question

The following chart shows the Baffin Bay high and low tide heights for four consecutive days. Describe the changes in the heights of the high and low tides from Monday morning to Thursday night.

Answer 1

Moon tides or lunar tides are caused by the pull of gravity between the moon and earth. The moon will exert a gravitational pull on earth and the earth also pulls the moon towards itself. One of the results is that the moon is near the earth and the other one, the oceans tide. Even though the earth can hold any object within ts proximity, the ocean is partly attracted due to its liquid property. At night, the ocean tends to be attracted to the moon by creating a bulge and assigning it as ‘high tide’. This is due to the strong gravitational pull of th moon to the earth.