What Causes the Pair of Tidal Bulges

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Multiple Choice

What causes the pair of tidal bulges?

• A)One is caused by the pull of the moon, the other by the sun.
• B)The east and west shores of the Americas pushing the water out of the way like giant mixer blades.
• C)The larger one closest to the Moon is gravitational; 180° away it is inertial.
• D)The shape of the whole Earth gets deformed into a flattened ellipsoid by the Moon's gravity; the other bulge is due to centrifugal force bending the rocks back but delayed by a quarter revolution.

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