how does the moon control the sea?! or doesn't it?

Question

i just wondered how waves were made, i thought it was to do with the wind blowing it... :S i don't know, seems kinda odd...

Answer 1

gravity. that`s what waves etc are made with. the moon`s gravitational pull pulls the sea a little higher when it passes in orbit.wind does play apart too, but not as great as the moon.

Answer 2

yes, waves are the result of wind blowing over the seas surfaces along with effects caused by currents within the sea.

The moon causes tides, which can be seen as 'waves' too, but on a much larger scale.
For understanding the tides its important to understand that the moon does not rotate around the earth. in fact earth and moon rotate around a center at a distance which is in relation to their masses.
while doing so the gravitational pull of the moon causes water to be lifted towards the moon a little on the side facing the moon, and as a result from centrifugal forces in both bodies movement water on the opposite side of the moon is lifted up too.
Since the earth is rotating itself this high tide can be seen as a kind of large wave while the earth seems to move beneath.

Answer 3

Waves are only to do with the wind blowing across the surface of the water.

For a moving diagram have a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_and_swell_waves

Tides on the other hand are due to the influenece of the moon's gravity on the earth. The moon pulls the sea towards it resulting in low tide. As the moon moves round, it drives this bulge of water around resulting in high tides of a few cm on earth.

Answer 4

Waves ARE created by the wind! The effect of the moon on the sea manifests itself in the tides. The tides are effectively bulges created by the gravitational pull of the moon. There is a corresponding bulge on the opposite side of the earth due to the absence gravitational attraction. Hence two tides daily.

Answer 5

as well as circling the sun earth tilts on its axis to produce seasons. So when turning it is affected by the moon's gravitational force thus drawing seas towards it and when we spin away the sea recedes. It is interesting to note that the mediterranean has very little if any tides - presumably because it it nearer to the equator and therefor less influenced. I am not sure of Mr Chuck Norris's contribution but if at the time there was no gravity I feel he would have been unable to complete to any degree the action you say he took.

Answer 6

The moon does not control the wave.
the moon influence the rise and fall of the tide

The moon pull the water of the sea.
on the surface of the earth facing the moon, there is the high tide
opposite or on the other side of the earth, it is a lean tide
. . . . lean tide is a low high tide
on the left and right side of the earth are low tides

actually there is lag time or time delay for the high tide.
High tide is not actually directly near the moon
there is a delay of the rise of tide.
The moon attract water tide, but the moon is still in advance
. . . and so the the tide is lag or behind

Answer 7

The moon doesn't control the sea, and waves do come from the winds. The moon causes the tides on very large bodies of water because of its gravitational tug on us.

Answer 8

the truth is that the gravitational pull of the moon on earth exerts some force on everything on earth, its only noticeable because the sheer mass of the governing bodies... although waves are produced by many different factors, ranging from tides wind etc, to ocean currents and atmospheric pressure differences.... it all depends on the mass of water, e.g a lake would have waves due to wind.. and so on

Answer 9

Tides and waves are NOT the same thing.

Tides are when the moon's gravitatinal pull makes the oceans bulge outward creating high and low tide.

Waves are simply air moving across the water

Answer 10

The moon controls the tide due to it's gravitational pull. Earth's oceans actually bulge on the moon;s side due to the moon's pull.