What Causes ‘Tides’ and How Do They Work?

Tides are like the ocean stretching and shrinking because of gravity from the Moon and Sun. Imagine the Earth is a big ball of water, and the Moon is pulling it like a magnet, that’s how tides happen! When the Moon pulls one side of the Earth, the water there rises up as a high tide, while on the opposite side, another high tide happens too because the Earth is also being pulled away from that water. When the Moon isn’t pulling as hard, the ocean goes down, that’s low tide.