Question

How do tides affect ocean life?

Answer 1

Hint: Tides occur in the oceans and move towards the coastline, which becomes the reason for the rise and fall of the sea’s surface. The rise and fall of seawater are known as tides which occur twice a day due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth at an interval of six hours.

Complete answer:
The sun and moon’s gravitational pulls are joined in the full moon and new moon days. During these days, high tides are very high, and low tides are very low. Neap tides are smaller tides that occur during the first and third quarter phases of the moon. During the phases of the moon, sun, moon, and Earth are at right angles. As a result, the gravitational pull of the moon is perpendicular to one another. During this time the high tides are very low and low tides are very high.

The tides affect the ocean living organisms and the marine ecosystems, there are many different kinds of sea creatures, especially those organisms that live in the intertidal zone, the effect of tide on the plants and sea living organisms is more in this zone.Even if human life gets affected by these tides, humans in search of seafood need to closely watch the movements of these tides so that they might find the seafood organisms which moved due to the tides.

Note:When the seawater rises, it is called ‘high tide’ and the fall of seawater is called the ‘ebb’ or ‘low tide’. A spring tide occurs during the full moon days and new moon days. The sun, moon, and Earth collide in a straight line during full moon days and new moon days.