How does the moon effect water on Earth?
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From Wiki\nThe tides on Earth are mostly generated by the Moon's gravitation, with a less significant contribution by the Sun. These gravitational effects are specifically manifested as tidal forces. The combination of the two is responsible for spring and neap tides. Two tidal bulges, one in the direction of the Moon, and one in the opposite direction (figure 1) form as a result of the tidal forces. The buildup of these bulges and their movement around the earth causes an energy loss due to friction. The energy loss decreases the rotational energy of the Earth.\n\nSince the Earth spins faster than the Moon moves around it, the tidal bulges are dragged along with the Earth's surface faster than the Moon moves, and move "in front of the Moon" (figure 2). Because of this, the Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon has a component in the Moon's "forward" direction with respect to its orbit. This component of the gravitational forces between the two bodies acts like a torque on the Earth's rotation, and transfers angular momentum and rotational energy from the Earth's spin to the Moon's orbital movement.
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It shouldn't have no impact on the earth.\n\nGravity is all that keeps us pulled together and it is only dependandt on MASS. If the moon's mass is constant (which I believe it is) it will not matter if it spins 100 times faster, or just halts on it's axis.
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The Earth is, approximately, covered under water;  (approximately 3/4ths of its \n            surface). \n            The Sun and moon --- having Attracting Power on our Planet, while our Planet \n            --- making the terrific speed of 1,037 1/3 miles on its way around the Sun. \n            The Sun draws this water up into the Earth's rotation, which is called \n            gravitation, in a fine mist that the naked eye can hardly detect.  But as this \n            mist ascends higher , and increasing with other mists of water in different \n            currents of the atmosphere, until when she becomes heavier than gravitation. \n            Then she distills back to the Earth in the form of drops of water or drops of ice, \n            which depends on how heavy the mist was, in the current of the air it was in. \n            There are some layers or currents of air --- real cold and warm, and some very \n            swift and changeable.  So when the water strikes one of these cold currents, it \n            becomes solid ice in small, round drops in form or in a light, fluffy form which is \n            called snow.  But this water is not ever drawn above six miles from the Earth's \n            surface by the Sun and moon.  The reason it rains back on our planet is \n            because it cannot get out of the earth's sphere.  With its high speed of rotating \n            around the Sun --- makes it impossible. \n            Earthquakes are caused by the Son of man by experimenting on high \n            explosion.  In fact, that all the above is caused by the Son of man.
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Good question!\n\nIn fact, causing the tide on Earth actually results in the Earth-Moon system losing a little energy during every orbit.  \n\nThis results in the moon moving a little further from the earth to maintain the angular momentum of the system.
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So the tides are caused by the graviational pull of the sun and the moon.  The moon is a lot closer, so it's pull is much stronger (even though it's the smaller body) and the position of the sun relative to the moon determines how big the difference between high and low tide is (it's bigger when they're lined up).  The moon pulls all the water on the Earth towards it (actually it pulls on everything, but because water is fluid it's the only thing that moves noticeably in response).  So the there's more water on one side of the Earth than the other, so one side has high tide because there's a whole bunch of extra water over there, and the other side has low tide because of all that water that was pulled to the other side.  As the Earth rotates, a different part will be closest to the Moon and the bulge of water will shift.\n\nThe actual mechanics of tides are a bit more complicated than that (I didn't account for the effect of the Earth's rotation, among other things), but that's the general principle that allows there to be tides on both sides.
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Actually only about 2/3 of the tides are from the moon's gravity, and about 1/3 are from the sun's gravity. \n\nThe reason there are about 2 high tides per day, is that the gravity field produced by the sun and the moon is not constant. The farther away from the moon you are, the less the gravity is. So water close to the moon gets pulled away from the earth (the force on the earth is less since the earth is farther away) and it gets pulled up in a pile we call a high tide. On the other side of the earth, the earth is pulled away from the water (since the earth is closer to the moon than the water on that side of the earth), leaving a pile of water on the far side of the earth, which is the other high tide. \n\nIn between these two piles of water, there are places where the water is not getting piled up. We say those places are experiencing a low tide. \n\nIt gets much more complicated than this of course. There are tides in the ground and in the atmosphere, in lakes and in rivers etc. There are places where there is one high tide a day or 3 or more or even no high tides per day (because of the response of the local area to the tidal forcing; governed by the bottom topography, coastline shape, etc). \n\nThere are high tides that are extra high because the sun and the moon line up (spring tides) and high tides that are not so high because the sun and the moon are at right angles, not working together (neap tides). There are ultra high tides when the moon is especially close (proxigean spring tides). There are effects of the other planets like Jupiter   and Mars in the tides. And so on.
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This sounds oddly like a homework question!  \n\n:-)\n\nYes, the moon does move farther back each year. It is measured by timing laser pulses fired from earth at the laser reflectors left on the moon by Apollo missions. They time how long it takes to travel to the moon and back, which gives the current distance.\n\nIf this is homework, you'll also want to include why this happens. Think about what happens on the earth that is influenced by the moon. If you live near the ocean, the answer will be obvious. If not, think about the tides. Raising that much water is work. And there must be a balancing change somewhere else. ("Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"  ---Google for that phrase and Newton)\n\nThe net result is the earth's day is slowly getting longer and the moon's rotation is getting slower, which means the moon gets a little farther away each year.\n\nHope this helps\n\nChuck Taylor\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/
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The main reason is that there is no weather on the moon to erode the surface.  Additionally, there is no tectonic movement of the surface of the moon.  Because of both these things, the surface of the moon is stable, while the earth's surface is constantly being altered.
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Our moon is locked in what is known as a geo-synchronous orbit. For millions of years the angular momentum has stablized the moon to provide very little loss of energy between earth and moon. This does not account for the influences that the moon has upon our oceans though. (Tides) Our solar system has "moved about" for many millions of years to allow for efficient energy transfers between baryonic masses.  This is not unlike a person who sit's in a chair and move's about to become more comfortable.  Peace
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atmosphere is created when gravity holds all the gas molecules around it, like earth's gravity is holding all the nitrogen/oxygen/water vapor/etc around it.  since the moon doesn't have as much gravity, it can't hold in the same atmosphere.  the atmosphere and humidity around a planet also absorb and hold heat.  when the sun sets on earth, the temperature doesn't change drastically, even though the sun's not providing heat anymore, because the atmosphere is hanging on to the heat it absorbed during the day.  if there is less atmosphere to absorb the heat, once the sun goes down the temperature will drop drastically.\n\nI'm not sure about the craters, but my guess is that the moon is more cratered because there's no erosion.  on a planet like earth, water and wind constantly wash across the surface and erode any irregularities like craters, so the surface is relatively smooth.  on the moon, there's no water and no wind (no atmosphere = no wind), so there's no erosion to smooth out the craters.
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Most of Earth's water condensed out of its early atmosphere, and that atmosphere came from world-wide volcanic eruptions. So, ultimately Earth's water resulted from volcanic activity, although much of it also comes from comets that entered our atmosphere.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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The moons gravity is what causes ocean waves. It affects big bodies of water such as oceans or seas but as for water in a toilet I highly doubt because if you think about it, the moon's gravity doesn't effect pond water. The only thing that would affect toilet water is water pressure, and on the global scale the Corriolis Effect. But that only effects the direction of the water when flushed. So the most probable cause is the water pressure of your city.
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Neither.  Considering there is still a WHOLE lot of gravity on the moon compared to other places, it would most likely stay on the ground, but it would not get absorbed.  The pull of Earth would keep it there on the surface.  It could freeze or boil, depending on the time you are on the moon and where you are on it.
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The short answer is, the high and low tides do not happen at the same time everywhere. High and low tides are like waves that travel around the planet. \n\nThe moon is responsible for about 2/3 of the tide, and the sun is responsible for about 1/3 of the tide. There are also effects from the other planets and celestial bodies, but since they are further away and/or smaller, the effects are much less. \n\nThe tides are caused because on one side of the earth, the gravitational pull of the moon (and other bodies) pulls the water away from the earth, and makes a big lump we call a high tide. On the other side of the earth, the earth gets pulled away from the water, leaving another big lump, a slightly smaller high tide. In between, it is low tide. That is why in most places we see 2 tides a day (although in some places there are no tides, or 1 tide a day, or more than 2 a day). \n\nThere are tides in the atmosphere too, and in the ground, as you might expect. It is not just in the water, but we can see the water tides easiest in the oceans and some big lakes.
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There is three part in the answer of your question. The first one is the distance that is not too effective (as others said) . The second part is the atmosphere and greenhouse effect (The other were pointed to this too). And the third part that is most important part. we know that there is no water on the moon's surface. the heat capacity of water is so high in comparison to other liquids (its about 4200 kj/kg'C). In earth water roles as a huge Heat reservior and Cold reservior that stores the heat of the day and release it at night. Because of this the differnce between the temperature of the day and night.
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The Moon does not produce any heat on its own.  The temperature on the surface is dependent upon the amount of sunlight it is receiving at that time.  There is no known water on the Moon so it is very much affected by hydrostatic electricty; much as we are on a day with very low humidity.  Hence the surface particles tend to stand apart creating microfissures which absorb sunlight resulting in a rather low reflectivity even tho the Moon appears bright.  Under other conditions it could be even brighter.
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Many NASA scientists believe that there might be some water on the moon. However, to date, no water has been found.