Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on the moon and tides. Water levels rise and fall creating a motion in the oceans called tides. The simple explanation of the cause for this movement is called gravity—the forces of the Sun and Moon. As the Earth spins on its axis, ocean levels around the planet are kept at equal levels by the Earth’s gravity pulling inward and centrifugal force pushing outward. The Moon’s gravitational forces are strong enough to disrupt this balance of ocean levels by accelerating the water toward the Moon causing it to bulge. As the moon orbits around the planet, this bulge moves. The areas where the bulging occurs experience a high tide and the other areas experience a low tide. Now, that’s a simple explanation, but there is more to it than that. For a different reason, the water on the opposite side of the Earth facing away from the Moon also bulges outward creating a high tide. The Moon and Earth re
