Tides Video Source

I found this video by Hewitt to be very helpful. Since he is the one who wrote the textbook we use, this information can be seen as accurate. Hewitt explains that the elongation of the earth is dependent of the lunar pulls on it. He also explains that the sun plays an affect of the tides. When the sun, moon, and the earth are aligned, there are high tides, called spring tides (although they have no correlation with the spring season). Spring tides will occur at the time of a full or a new moon. When the moon is positioned at 90 degrees between the sun and the earth, neap tides will occur.