There are two high tides and two low tides in each 25-hour period because

A) Earth orbits around the Sun in a little over 24 hours.
B) the Moon orbits Earth in 25 hours.
C) Earth completes a full rotation every 24 hours but the Moon moves too.
D) heating and cooling of the seas occurs twice each day.


C) Earth completes a full rotation every 24 hours but the Moon moves too.

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