Rotation/Revolution
What causes day and night?
What is rotation of the Earth
If its ____ in the Northern hemisphere, then its fall in the Southern hemisphere.
What is Spring.
The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.
What is phases.
In order to have an eclipse, the Moon, Sun and Earth have to be?
What is in alignment.
Which body has the greater effect on Earth's tides?
What is the moon.
How long does it take the Earth to make one orbit around the Sun.
What is one year or 365 days
What are the 2 reasons we experience different seasons because?
What is the revolution of the Earth and Earth's tilted axis.
As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.
What is waning.
What is the darkest inner part of the shadow cone called, where a total eclipse can be viewed.
What is the umbra.
How many low and high tides happen each day?
What is 2 high tides and 2 low tides.
Although it looks like the Sun is rising and setting, in real life, the ____ is moving.
What is the Earth.
The Earth's axis is tilted _____ degrees.
What is 23.5 degrees
About how long does it take the moon to make one complete cycle around the earth?
What is 29.5 days.
What is the larger outer lighter part of the shadow cone called, where a partial eclipse can be viewed?
What is the Penumbra.
What type of tide occurs during a new and full moon?
What is a Spring tide.
When your part of Earth faces towards the Sun, it is (a)________, but when your part of Earth faces away from the Sun, it is (b)_________.
What is Daytime and nighttime
What season occurs when the part of the Earth you are on is tilted away from the Sun?
What is Winter.
Name all 8 phases of the moon.
What is New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.
When the Earth's shadow falls on the moon, the shadow causes what to happen?
What is a lunar eclipse.
What do we call the small tides that happen when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other?
What is a Neap tide.
What is the shortest and longest day of the year?
What is solstice.
The equator splits our Earth into 2.....
What is the northern and southern hemisphere.
What causes the phase of the Moon to change each night?
What is the alignment of the Sun, Earth and Moon.
During a Solar eclipse the ___________ blocks the Sun, where as during a lunar eclipse the _________ blocks the moon.
What is Moon and Earth.
The tidal bulge follows the movement of the _____.
What is the moon