Lunar Cycle
The first phase of the Lunar Cycle
What is the new moon?
The type of eclipse in which the Moon blocks our view of the Sun.
What is a Solar eclipse?
The season the Northern Hemisphere has when it is tilted toward the Sun.
What is Summer?
The path one object takes around another in space.
What is orbit?
The term we use when the light is growing or increasing
What is waxing?
This type of eclipse involves the Earth's position in front of the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is the cause of earths change in seasons.
What is the axis tilt?
According to Newton's third law, for every action there is this.
What is an equal and opposite reaction?
About how long is one full revolution?
What is about 30 days?
The innermost or darkest part of the shadow within the ecipse.
What is the umbra?
The two days each year when day and night are nearly equal in length.
What is Equinox?
These are the two factors that determine magnitude.
What are mass and distance?
The phase that comes right after the first quarter and right before the full moon.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
The Moon phase that is required for a solar eclipse to happen.
This day is the longest day of the year, located during a summer month, about 6 months from its counterpart.
What is the Summer Solstice?
A 1,000 kg car is pushed with a net force of 500 N. This is its acceleration.
What is 0.5m/s2?
No matter what we can see from Earth, how much of the moon is always lit?
What is half lit?
We don't get eclipses every month because the Moon's orbit has this feature compared to Earth's orbit around the Sun.
What is tilt or positioning?
Earth is actually closest to the Sun during this Northern Hemisphere season.
What is Winter?
If the distance between two objects doubles, the gravitational force between them becomes this fraction of what it was.
What is 1/4?