Seasons
The season that is very hot
What is summer?
The tide experienced twice a day where the water is at its highest point
What is a high tide?
The first moon phase where you cannot see the moon
What is a new moon?
The eclipse where the moon casts a shadow onto earth
What is a solar eclipse?
The amount of time it takes the earth to orbit the sun
What is 365.25 days?
The season that the Northern hemisphere experiences while Australia is in summer
What is winter?
2 low tides
How many low tides are there daily?
The whole of the moon is lit up at night
What is a full moon?
The type of eclipse that can be seen by anyone on the night side of earth
What is a lunar eclipse?
The amount of time it takes earth to rotate on its axis
What is 24 hours?
The imaginary line that splits the northern and southern hemisphere
What is the equator?
The space object that causes tides
What is the moon?
The moon phase seen approximately 1 week into the lunar cycle
What is a first quarter moon?
The moon phase required for a solar eclipse to occur
What is a new moon phase?
The tilt that the earths axis rotates on in degrees
The main thing that causes seasons to occur
What is the axial tilt?
The large space object that helps cause neap tides
What is the sun?
The amount of light visible on the moon is increasing and the moon is more than half illuminated
What is waxing gibbous?
The term used to describe 3 or more space objects lining up to cause an eclipse
What is alignment?
The amount of days it takes for a lunar cycle to be completed
What is 29.5 days?
The thing that causes summer to get hotter due to the days being longer and sun being out more often than not
What is the warming effect?
Spring tides
What is the largest type of high tide?
The amount of light visible from the moon is shrinking and is less than half illuminated?
What is waning crescent?
The thing that happens to the suns light in the earths atmosphere to cause a blood moon
What is a refraction (bending) of light?
The type of sunlight experienced in summer which is really warm
What is direct sunlight?