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The Moon: Tides Of The Ocean

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The Moon is tethered to the Earth by gravity, orbiting once every day. For the Moon to take a full cycle, it takes 27.322 days to rotate once on its axis from a New Moon or Dark Moon to, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, and back to the New Moon. Our moon gives the ocean currents due to its gravity pulling the oceans into a wavy mess, acting like a magnet to a steel ball behind a sheet of paper, it will pull it and move it, but won’t take it off the ground due to it being to far away. But this pull gives us something called Tides, when it’s high tide, the Moon is either above that area of ocean or on the other side of the world, pulling both sides of the Earth seas (as
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