Earth Moon Sun System
When an object is spinning on its axis
What is rotation?
The light source for the Moon
What is the Sun?
Eclipses occur because of an object casting this on another object
What is a shadow?
We have this number of high and low tides per day
What is 2?
Seasons are ________ in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is opposite?
It takes 365 1/4 days for Earth to do this
What is revolve around the Sun?
The length of the lunar cycle
What is 29 days?
During this kind of eclipse, the Moon blocks out the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
Tides occur because of this
What is the Moon's gravitational pull?
A reason for Earth's seasons
What is the Earth's tilt, orbit, or amount of sunlight?
Earth's 24 hour _______ gives us day and night.
What is rotation?
If a moon appears to be getting larger in size, it's this
What is waxing?
During this kind of eclipse, you would see a red moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
Spring tides occur at these two moon phases
What are new and full moons?
These events occur when there is an equal amount of daytime and nighttime
What are equinoxes?
This keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun and the Moon in orbit around Earth
What is gravity?
The name for a half moon
What is a quarter moon?
You have to be in this part of the shadow to see a total eclipse
What is the umbra?
The tide with the greatest range between high and low tides
What is a spring tide?
During this season, the sun rises higher overhead
What is summer?
The Moon does these two things at the exact same rate
What is rotate and revolve?
The lit portion of the Moon changes because of this
What is the Moon's orbit around Earth?
Eclipses don't occur every month because of this
What is the moon's tilted orbit?
This type of tide is created by the right angle between the Earth, Sun and Moon
What is a neap tide?
We would not experience seasons if Earth was this
What is vertical/not tilted on its axis?