Solar System
Orbits
Moon
Tides
More Moon
100
This is what the planets were created from.
What is, the proto-planetary disc?
100
This is why planets orbit the sun.
What is, they are effected by the sun's gravity?
100
This is what we call the pattern of light and shadows on the moon we see each month.
What are phases?
100
These two celestial bodies influence the tides on Earth.
What are the sun and the moon?
100
This is how the moon was created.
What is, a mars-sized body glanced off earth, spewing rock around the earth in a disk of material that rotated and so caused the material of accumulate into the moon.
200
This is what defines the inner, middle, and outer planets.
What is, the phase of water and presence/lack of of rock or ice.
200
This is the term that describes how circular or oval an orbit is.
What is eccentricity?
200
This is the direction the moon revolves around earth.
What is counter clockwise
200
This is how earth is effected by the sun and moon's gravity and thus causes tides
What is, pulled into an oblong shape on which the earth's water moves?
200
This is loose and pulverized rock on the surface of the moon.
What is regolith?
300
This word describes the creation of the planets.
What is accretion?
300
This is the equation for eccentricity.
What is E = D/L?
300
This is the moon phase when the left half of the moon is lit.
What is third (last) quarter?
300
This the the type of tide created when the moon and sun are in line.
What are spring tides?
300
This is the name of this moon phase:
What is a waxing gibbous?
400
This is a nemonic for remembering the order of the planets from the sun outward.
What is: M V E M J S U N
400
This is the E value of an orbit that is a perfect circle.
What is 0?
400
This is why we always see the same side of the moon.
What is, the moon and earth rotate at the same rate?
400
This is the type of tide created when the sun and moon are perpendicular to each other.
What is a neap tide?
400
What is full moon and spring tide?
500
This is what earth does as it orbits the sun.
What is rotate and revolve?
500
This is the E value of an orbit that is a straight line.
What is 1?
500
This is the moon phase when a sliver of the right side of the moon is lit.
What is a waxing crescent?
500
This is the type of tide we experience when the following moon phase is present:
What is a neap tide?
500
What is new moon and spring tide?