The Moon and Spring Tides

How the Moon affects daily tides and drives extreme spring tides, when the Sun and Moon align.

Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points.

The Moon creates and controls the tides.

Its gravitational pull causes ocean water to bulge upwards.

Tides are produced as the Earth spins through the bulges.

Spring tides occur at the new and full Moon.

A Twig Context Film.
Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in action in the real world.