Earth's motion
What is a rise and fall of sea level
What is a tide
How many phases of the moon are there?
What is 8
What is caused by the direction Earth’s rotation axis is pointed with respect to the Sun
What are the seasons
what is the line on which an object rotates
what is rotation axis
The Earth takes how long to make one rotation
What is 24 hours
What is responsible for tides?
What is the gravity of the moon
What takes the moon 27.3 days to do?
What is rotate or revolve
The first Day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere occurs on this date
What is June 20,21 or 22
What does the Earth do around the Sun?
What is rotate
What keeps the Earth revolving around the Sun in a nearly circular orbit?
What is the Sun's gravity
What eclipse occurs when the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon
What is lunar eclipse
What on the moon is formed from impacts of other objects in space
what are craters
On the September equinox and the March equinox there are about _____ hours of daylight and ____ hours of darkness _____________.
What is 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness everywhere on Earth
What is the shortest day of the year and the sun is the lowest in the sky at noon
what is the winter solstice
The path an object follows as it moves around another object
What is orbit
A total solar eclipse can be seen only from within the Moon’s
what is the moon's umbra
What is the portion of the moon or planet reflecting light as seen from Earth
What is a phase
What tides occur at first and third quarter moons
What is it called when it is in the phase in which its visible surface area is getting smaller
What is waning
What season occurs on the hemisphere that is tilted toward the sun
What is summer
What is the lighter part of a shadow where light is partially blocked
what is the penumbra
The phase of the moon that immediately comes before the new moon
What is third quarter
Dark colored, relatively flat regions of the Moon’s surface that were formed when interior lava filled large basins
What is maria
How long does a lunar cycle take?
What is 29.5 days