Earth's Movements
What is Earth's Rotation?
The seasons listed in order starting with Winter.
What is Winter-Spring-Summer-Fall?
The time it takes for the moon to complete all its phases.
What is 29.5 days?
Describe the order of the Earth-Sun-Moon during a Solar Eclipse.
What is the moon is in between the Sun and the Earth?
Sun-Moon-Earth
The Sun during the day and the Stars at night appear to do this.
What is move across the sky from East to West?
Earth's rotation can be defined as this.
What is spinning on it's axis?
Describe the position of the Earth during the Summer.
What is the North Pole/Axis is tilted towards the Sun?
The definition of moon phase is this.
What is the change in the sunlit area as seen from Earth?
Describe the order of the Earth-Sun-Moon during a Lunar Eclipse.
What is the Earth is in between the Sun and the Moon?
Sun-Earth-Moon
Constellations are groups of stars in a pattern. The reason we see different constellations at different times of the year is due to this.
What is Earth's Revolution around the Sun?
Earth spins on its axis, which is tilted this many degrees.
What is 23.5?
The number of day/night hours during the Spring or Fall.
What is equal?
The moon completes this movement around the Sun.
What is Revolution?
A solar eclipse can be described as this.
What is the shadow of the moon falls on Earth?
The Summer Solstice is known as the _____ day of the year. And the Winter Solstice is known as the _____ day of the year.
What is longest and shortest?
This word means the path an object takes around another object.
What is orbit?
Describe the position of the Earth during the Winter.
What is the North Pole/Axis is tilted away from the Sun?
To us on Earth, the new moon appears ____ and a full moon appears ____.
What is dark and fully lit?
A Lunar Eclipse can be described as this.
What is Earth's shadow falls on the moon?
Equinox occurs twice a year. The Equinox mark these two events, ____/_____, have _____ hours of day/night.
What is Spring/Fall and equal?
The time it takes for Earth to complete a full revolution around the Sun.
What is 365 days?
These two phenomenon are known to cause the change in temperature and number of daylight hours known as Seasons.
What is Earth's tilt and orbit?
The moon rotates on its axis which causes this.
What is we always see the same side of the moon from Earth?
The reason we do not experience an Eclipse each month is because of this.
What is the Earth-Sun-Moon are not always in the same plane?
During a Solar Eclipse, the moon casts two shadows. Name and describe each shadow.
What is Penumbra - larger and lighter and what is Umbra - smaller and darker?