Tide Resource.
Each day the earth experiences 2 high tides and 2 low tides. They come 1 after the other and last for 6 hours each. For example if at 12am there was a high tide, at 6am there will be a low tide and at 12pm there will be another high tide and at 6pm there will be another low tide.
If a place in the earth is experiencing a high or low tide, the completely opposite side of the world will completely experience the same tide, this is due to the difference of the moons gravitational pull on the earths core.
The tides have to be equal and opposite, or either the tides will not be able to form.
A spring tide is when the sun and moon are acting on the same sides of the earth and cause higher than normal tides, and a neap tide is where the sun and moon are affecting the earth on perpendicular sides and cause normal tides.
This is a very clear simple explination, it gave me a clearer understanding of the tides. The moon effects the tides and the equally on opposite sides of the Earth and on the remaining sides the tides are the opposite of the tides on the other sides. The important point that was made clear was that on opposite side the tides are the same.
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