Moon Phases
The phase of the moon when just a small part is lit (comes right before or after a New Moon)
What is a crescent moon?
The amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis
What is 24 hours?
The time when your shadow would be its smallest?
What is noon?
The order of the seasons
What is summer, fall, winter, and spring? (has to be in the correct sequence)
8x7=
What is 56?
The time it takes from New Moon to New Moon
What is 29 1/2 days?
The region facing the sun experiences _______.
What is day?
The time of day your shadow is the longest
What is early morning or late afternoon?
The amount of time is takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun
What is 365 1/4 days?
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
The phase of the moon when it is between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a New Moon?
The Sun rises in the ___________
What is east?
This happens to your shadow as the sun moves higher in the sky
What is it gets shorter?
The season that the southern hemisphere experiences on December 25.
What is summer?
What is 1/2 is greater than 2/6?
This means that the lit part of the moon is getting smaller.
What is waning?
The Sun sets in the _________.
What is west?
The location of your shadow when the Sun in behind you.
What is in front of you?
The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun during this season
What is winter?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The phase of the moon when the Earth is between the Sun and the moon
What is a full moon?
Earth is tilted on its axis and rotates
What is the reason we have night and day?
The three things you need to make a shadow
What is a source of light, an object, and a surface behind the object?
The northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun during this season
What is summer?
The three branches of government
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?