my six year old asked me what makes the tied come in and out, could someone please explain in easy terms.?

Answer 1

Just tell him that the water in the oceans gets drawn towards the moon, so as the moon passes overhead the water gets sucked towards it causing the tide to come in. When the moon passes
the water goes back down again.

That is more than enough for a six year old. Maybe in a few years he will wonder whythere are two tides a day, and why high tide doesn;t correspond to the moon being diretctly overhead, but for now that's good enough.

Answer 2

Waves are formed in three ways, gravity, wind and earthquakes. Gravity is responsible for the high and low tides. High tide is when the water is the deepest and low tide is when the water is most shallow. The rise and fall of the water level causes waves to form.

The second cause of waves is wind. The wind can be light and only cause small waves. These waves can be as tiny as ripples in the water. Young children can practice making waves by blowing on a bowl full of water.

Wind can also cause very large waves that make being in the water very dangerous. Even large ships don�t want to be caught in a storm with huge waves.

The type of wave wind causes depends on how hard the wind is blowing, how long the wind blows and how much ocean the wind blows over.

Lastly, waves can be caused by earthquakes. Earthquakes are the result of two of the earth�s plates rubbing together. Just as we stumble or fall during an earthquake, water also reacts to the power force. The earthquake pushes the water away from the epicenter of the quake and can cause some pretty large waves.

Answer 3

There are tow reasons. One that everyone got was that the moon pulls on the water using gravity. The second which none of the answers I saw mentions is centrifugal force. as the earth spins, it is trying to throw the water off of the earth (this has been measured). This causes the water to "rise" and pull water from the shores to fill in where the water left behind. You could demonstrate this by putting some water in a bucket and spinning it around in a circle up and down. The centrifugal force will keep the water there.

Answer 4

Tides are created because the Earth and the moon are attracted to each other, just like magnets are attracted to each other. The moon tries to pull at anything on the Earth to bring it closer. But, the Earth is able to hold onto everything except the water. Since the water is always moving, the Earth cannot hold onto it, and the moon is able to pull at it. Each day, there are two high tides and two low tides. The ocean is constantly moving from high tide to low tide, and then back to high tide. There is about 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides.

Answer 5

tides are influences the the gravitation pull of the moon. as the moon passes over a point in the middle of the ocean, it pulls the water towards it, and therefore pulling some water away form the coasts. we see this as the tide going out. as it passes towards and over land, it brings the tide in.

if you can picture the moon over directly above the ocean, the water would vaguely create an arc/(bump) at that point.

this isnt very technical but im not very good at dumbing things down. my explanations are awful. im not trying to be patronising at all.

Answer 6

The gravitational pull of the moon creates the tides, as the Earth rotates the pull of the moon changes on that area, creating tides.

Answer 7

Simple answer eh? The easiest thing is to imagine a rope connected from the moon to the middle of the sea, as the moon moves further away it pulls the sea up in the middle, so it moves away from the coasts.....nice and easy!

Answer 8

in simple terms for the sake of your six year old lol just tell her/him that the moon pulls the water in and out thus tides are produced

Answer 9

the moons causes the waves in the ocean as the earth pulls the moon it puts pressure like if your were racking the grass up

Answer 10

the pull of the moon makes the tide go in and out,