Why moon gravity affected sea tides on earth?

[c=359E00]isn't that moon's gravity weaker than earth's gravity?[/c]

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All gravity affects all matter in the world. An atom in your body affects all the atoms in the sun, just very little. The moon is kinda large and quite close to the earth, hence it affects the gravitation on all of us more significantly.