Historical Examples. 1  I do not contest the truth of the principle of continuity on which this view is based. 2  The continuity of nature does not fail saving for extraordinary instances. 3  The processes of his mind are characterised by continuity, consistency, and a kind of gathering intensity of movement.
In most places, two high tides and two low tides occur daily. Tides happen because the moon's gravity is pulling on the Earth and its oceans. The oceans are fluid and can move more than the land, so they move towards the moon. As the moon revolves around the Earth, it creates high tides and low tides.
- Other areas experience a semidiurnal tide with two high tides and two low tides each day. When the water levels of the two high tides and of the two low tides are unequal, the tidal pattern is called a semidiurnal mixed tide that indicates the presence of combined diurnal and semidiurnal tides.