The Sky from the Earth
The Ursa Minor is known as this.
What is the little dipper?
This is the imaginary line that passes through the Earth's center. It runs between the North and South Poles.
What is the axis?
The force that keeps the Earth in orbit.
What is gravity?
The different shapes of the moon you see from Earth.
What is a moon phase?
The rise and fall of ocean water.
What is a tide?
The sunset is seen from Earth going in this direction:
What is the west.
When the Earth moves on its North and South Poles.
What is rotation?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The side of the moon that we will not ever see on Earth.
What is the dark side of the moon?
The Earth's gravity causes a pull on the ocean water. This pull causes the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.
What is a spring tide?
An object that orbits the sun, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit.
What is a planet.
The movement of the Earth while moving around the sun.
What is revolution?
The measurement of gravity in an object. Often measured in Newtons.
What is gravity or weight?
During a solar eclipse, this phase of the moon makes it possible for Earth to see the sun completely covered for a moment in time.
During this tide, the tides are level and have the least differences between a low tide and a high tide.
What is a neap tide?
These are sudden bright burst within the sky. They often referred to as "shooting stars".
What is a comet?
The system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length and divisions of the year.
What is a calendar?
An object's resistance to change in its motion.
What is inertia?
During a lunar eclipse, this phase of the moon is necessary to make a lunar eclipse occur.
What is a full moon?
During a full moon, the tide is at its highest tide. This tide is often called by this name.
What is a Spring Tide?
A body that orbits a planet.
What is a satellite?
The time during the Earth's orbit where the sun is closest to the tropic of cancer.
What is the summer solstice?
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
The darkest shadow cast due to the moon's shadow.
What is an umbra?
The gravitational pull from the sun and the moon control the tides. This is the force that affects these tide movements.
What is gravity?