Vocabulary
Moon Phases
More Moon Phases
Random Moonisms
Grab Bag
100
A rocky sphere that travels around a planet
A moon
100
This moon phase looks like nothing!
New Moon
100
What in the world is this moon phase?
Quarter Moon!
100
This is how much less you weigh on the moon.
1/6th
100
During a full moon, the moon is illuminated this much by the sun.
50%
200
to shine light on an object and make it visible
Illuminate
200
This moon phase looks like the letter C, sometimes its backwards.
Crescent
200
What is this moon phase!?!?!
Waxing Crescent
200
The first lunar landing took place in this year.
1969
200
The Moon phase is full, the Earth phase is this.
New Earth
300
The path an object takes as it travels around a centerpoint.
Orbit
300
This moon phase is 100% illuminated when viewed from earth.
Full moon
300
What is this moon phase?!?!?!?!
Waning gibbous
300
It takes about this long for a full moon phase cycle to occur.
About 28 days
300
This is the order needed for a lunar eclipse.
Sun, Earth, Moon
400
This model is enlarged or minimized by the same amount.
To scale model
400
What is this moon phase!?!?!?
Waxing Gibbous
400
This moon phase is REQUIRED for a lunar eclipse!!!!
Full moon
400
The estimated angle of the Moon's tilted orbital plane.
About 5 degrees
400
Name the shadow cast by Earth.
Umbra
500
The shape of the moon we see from Earths surface, usually at night,
Moon Phases
500
What is this moon phase!?!?!?
Waning Crescent
500
This causes this full moon to be red.
Earths atmosphere!
500
The amount of the moon visible from Earth during a gibbous moon.
50.1-99.9%
More than half, less than a whole.
500
You see this phase, whats next????
Waxing Crescent