Day and Night
One full rotation of the Earth.
What is a day?
The imaginary line that separates the hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The number of phases of the moon.
What is 8?
The colour the moon goes during a lunar eclipse.
What is red?
When the water is at its highest point for the day.
What is high tide?
The period when the sun has just risen.
What is dawn?
The season Japan would be experiencing if Australia was in Spring.
What is Autumn?
The moon's phase when the whole visible side is lit up by the sun.
What is a full moon?
What is a total solar eclipse?
The length of a tidal cycle.
What is half a day. (twice a day)
The point upon which the Earth rotates.
What is an axis?
The reason why the sun's intensity is different in each hemisphere.
What is Earth's tilt?
27.3 days.
What is the length of the moon's orbit.
The name of the point on the earth you need to be to view the full eclipse.
Where is the umbra?
When the sun and moon's gravitational pull works together to influence the tides.
What is spring tide?
The location where time zones are measured from.
What is Greenwich Mean time?
Places that can experience 24 hours of daylight.
What are Earth's poles?
The time the moon will be in the sky during a new moon.
What is daytime?
The factor that affects how much of the sun will be blocked by the moon.
What is the closeness of the moon?
What is neap tide?
The names for the longest and shortest days of the year.
What is the solstice?
What is the equinox?
The reason the moon can be seen at night.
What is reflected sunlight?
The force that causes light to bend around the Earth and hit the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is gravity?
The reason why tides on the opposite side of the moon are also high.
Earth's rotation.