Seasons
The reason for the seasons.
what is the earth's 23.5 degrees tilt?
Tides in a 24 hour period.
What is 4 tides?
The shadow area of a partial eclipse.
What is a penumbra?
The Earth's orbit around the sun is due to one factor.
What is gravity?
This takes 24 hours for the earth to complete.
What is one rotation?
Evidence that helps explain the earth's tilt as the cause for the seasons. (name one example.)
What is _________? (teacher will approve)
Tides that occur with the full and new moons.
What is spring tides?
The dark shadow area of a full eclipse.
What is the umbra?
When two objects move farther apart, gravity....
What is gravity decreases between the 2 objects?
This takes the earth 365 days to complete.
What is one revolution of the Earth's orbit?
Evidence that helps explain the earth's tilt as the cause for the seasons. (name one example)
What is ___________? (teacher approved answer)
Tides that occur at the first and last quarter moons.
What is neap tides?
Solar eclipses occur when these are aligned in this specific order.
What is the Sun, new moon, earth?
Gravity is ....
What is the attraction between two objects?
Three things that must be in perfect balance for a satellite to remain in space.
What is distance, speed, and mass?
Evidence that helps explain the earth's tilt as the cause for the seasons. (name one example)
What is _________? (teacher approved answer)
Tides occur every ___ hours.
What is every 6 hours?
Lunar eclipses occur when this specific alignment happens.
What is the sun, earth, moon?
There's a large and small object. Gravity causes....
What is the smaller object to be attracted to the larger object?
The moon completes one revolution around in the earth in this amount of time.
What is 29.5 days?
Seasons in the northern and southern hemisphere if the north pole is tilted towards the sun.
What is summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere?
The primary reason tides occur on Earth.
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
Eclipses don't occur during every new moon because...
What is the moon's orbit is tilted so that the perfect alignment occurs infrequently?
The gravitational pull of this keeps our solar system in place.
What is the milk way?
If a new moon is seen on April 1, the first quarter and the full moon will be seen approximately these times.
What is April 7th and 14th?