What is the number of phases the Moon goes through in one cycle?
100
2 tidal bulges.
What is the amount of tidal bulges around the Earth?
100
An obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
What is an eclipse?
100
The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, esp. the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
What is the umbra?
100
Counterclockwise.
What is the way the Earth and Moon rotate?
200
Waxing Crescent.
What is the phase after the New Moon?
200
Spring tides occur when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are aligned.
What is the alignment of the Earth, Sun, and Moon when there is a spring tide?
200
When Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon, a lunar eclipse occurs. A lunar eclipse begins when the Moon moves into Earth’s penumbra.
What is the positions of the Moon, Earth, and Sun when there is a lunar eclipse?
200
The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
What is the epnumbra?
200
Seasons change because of the tilt of the Earth.
What is the reason the seasons change?
300
New Moon
First Quarter
Full Moon
Last Quarter
What is an abbreviated list of the phases of the Moon?
300
A neap tide occurs when the Earth, Sun, and Moon forma right angle.
What is the position of the Earth, Sun, and Moon when there is a neap tide?
300
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow on part of
Earth.
What is the position of the Moon, Earth, and Sun when a solar eclipse occurs?
300
The motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
300
THe Moon.
What is the biggest factor in Earth's sides?
400
29.5 days.
What is the amount of days that the Moon takes to repeat its cycle?
400
2 low tides and 2 high tides.
What is the amount of high and low tides in 24 hours?
400
Penumbra and umbra?
What are the two parts of a shadow during an eclipse?
400
The attractive force between two objects that depends
on the masses of the objects and the distance between them.
What is gravity?
400
It is used to measure days.
What is Earth's rotation used to measure.
500
New Moon
Waxing Crescent
First Quarter
Waxing Gibbous
Full Moon
Waning Gibbous
Last Quarter
Waning Crescent
What is all the phases of the Moon in order from New Moon to New Moon?
500
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.
What is a tide?
500
Penumbral lunar eclipse, partial lunar eclipse, and total lunar eclipse.
What is the different types of eclipses?
500
The dark-colored, relatively flat regions on the
Moon’s surface.
What is maria?
500
Rotation is the spinning of Earth on its axis, an imaginary line drawn through Earth from its rotational north pole to its rotational south pole, a revolution is the motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
What is the difference between a revolution and rotation?