Spin
This is the name of Earth's spinning motion.
What is rotation?
This is the name of Earth's path around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
The light we see from the Moon is actually being reflected from this.
What is the Sun?
This type of eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Tides are mainly caused by the gravitational pull of this object.
What is the Moon?
Earth spins around this imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis?
Earth takes about this long to complete one orbit around the Sun.
What is one year (about 365 days)?
This phase occurs when the Moon is completely dark from Earth's perspective.
What is the New Moon?
This type of eclipse happens when Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Most coastal locations experience this number of high tides each day.
What is two?
Earth takes approximately this many hours to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
The tilt of Earth's axis is about this many degrees.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This phase occurs when we see the entire lit half of the Moon from Earth.
What is the Full Moon?
The darkest part of a shadow is called this.
What is the umbra?
This type of tide has the smallest difference between high and low tide.
What is a neap tide?
A location on the equator experiences this number of day-night cycles in one full rotation.
What is one?
Seasons are caused mainly by this feature of Earth, not distance from the Sun.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
The Moon takes about this long to complete one full cycle of phases.
What is about 29.5 days?
The lighter outer part of a shadow is called this.
What is the penumbra?
Spring tides occur when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are in this formation.
What is aligned?
Due to the Earth's rotation, the Sun appears to move in this direction across the sky.
What is east to west?
When the Southern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, Australia experiences this season.
What is Winter?
We always see the same side of the Moon from Earth because the Moon rotates in the same time it takes to do this.
What is orbit the Earth?
A solar eclipse can only occur during this Moon phase.
What is a New Moon?
Spring tides occur during these two Moon phases.
What are the New Moon and the Full Moon?