Vocabulary
Tides / Eclipse
Moon Phases
Planets
Revolution
100
The orbit of one object around another object.
(movimiento de un objeto alrededor de ortro objeto.)
What is Revolution
(revolucion)
100
This illustration shows the correct alignment for which eclipse?
a. Lunar
b. Solar
What is Lunar Eclipse
100
Which phase is represented:
a.Full Moon
b.Waxing Gibbous
c.3rd Quarter
d.New Moon
What is the New Moon.
100
Life is less likely on the outermost planets than life on planets nearer the Sun do to:
a. their surfaces are extremely hot
b. they have too little mass
c. their surfaces are extremely cold.
d. they have too much mass
What is their surfaces are extremely cold.
100
True or False:
The Earth revolves around the Sun as the Moon rotates around the Sun.
What is False.
The Earth revolves around the Sun, while the Moon revolves around Earth. 
200
The line on which an object rotates.
(linea sobre la cual un objeto rota.)
What is Axis
(eje de rotacion)
200
Why are there high and low tides on Earth?
What is the gravitational pull between Earth and the moon.
200
What phases of the moon can a lunar eclipse occur?
What is a Full moon.
200
Which pair would be MOST necessary for life to develop on another planet?
a. liquid water and carbon
b. sulfur and nitrogen
c. helium and hydrogen
d. chlorophyll and oxygen
What is liquid water and carbon
200
One full revolution, or orbit, the Earth takes around the sun is about _______ many days?
What is 365.25 days
300
The spin of an object around its axis.
(movimiento giratorio de un objeto sobre su eje)
What is rotation.
(rotacion)
300
During what phase of the Moon could an eclipse of the Sun occur?
What is New moon
300
What phase would come NEXT in the model?
a.Full Moon
b.Waning Gibbous
c.3rd Quarter
d.Waxing Gibbous
What is Waning Gibbous
300
Where do scientist plan to send astronauts in the future?
What is Mars.
300
During an equinox, the Sun is directly over what part of Earth?
What is the northern hemisphere
400
An occurrence during which Moon's shadow appears on Earth's surface.
(acontecimiento durante el cual la combra la Luna aparence sobre la superficie de la Tierra.)
What is Solar Eclipse.
(eclipse solar)
400
This diagram is an illustration of:
a. neap tides
b. spring tides
(Tip: Spring = straight line=significant difference)
(Tip: Spring = straight line=significant difference)
What is Spring Tide
400
True or False:
The position of the moon is responsible for the changes of the seasons that we have on Earth?
What is False.
The tilt of Earth on its axis is what causes the change in seasons.
400
Which planet has the slowest rotation rate?
What is Venus
400
Which of the following best explains why the Sun appears to move across the sky every day?
What is Earth rotates on its axis.
500
When Earth's rotation axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the Sun.
(cuando el eje do roatcion do la Tierra se inclina sin acercarse ni alejarse del Sol.)
What is Equinox
(equinoccio)
500
When the Sun and Moon are aligned the tides are __________, which is called a __________.
a.less than normal, spring tide
b.greater than normal, neap tide
c.less than normal, neap tide
d.greater than normal, spring tide
What is Spring Tide
500
The rotation of the Moon is
What is about the same as its revolution.
500
The planets in the solar system revolve around the Sun because the Sun is
What is the strongest source of gravity in the solar system.
500
Approximately how many times will the Earth rotate during a revolution around the Sun?
What is 365