Ruben Novoa
Professor Santana
Astronomy 1
22 September 2020
A trip to the beach has always been something fun, something to look forward to.
Enjoying the beautiful weather and splashing through the waves as they rock in and out of the
shore. However, have you ever just stopped to take it all in and for a second wonder why the
water looks so much closer at night as opposed to the day. The reason for this is because the tide
rises. A tide is the rise and fall of the sea level as the earth rotates through the moon in a twenty–
four-hour period, the cause of low and high tides is the moon’s gravitational force. In a day we
