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  • Because gravity gets weaker at longer distances, the moon pulls the near-side ocean more than the Earth

  • and the Earth more than the far-side ocean.

  • When the Earth spins relative to the moon, the water sloshes, and we call it the tides.

Because gravity gets weaker at longer distances, the moon pulls the near-side ocean more than the Earth

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