Moon Phases
This phase occurs when the Moon is completely illuminated from Earth.
What is a Full Moon?
This eclipse occurs when the Moon blocks the Sun’s light from reaching Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This force pulls objects with mass toward each other.
What is Gravity?
The Moon revolves around this object.
What is the Earth?
This is the ONE AND ONLY star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This phase occurs when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun and cannot be seen.
What is a New Moon?
This eclipse occurs when Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
Gravity keeps planets moving in this path around the Sun.
What is an Orbit?
This is the main cause of Earth’s seasons.
What is Earth’s tilted axis as it revolves around the Sun?
The four planets closest to the Sun are rocky planets, while the four farthest from the Sun are known as these types of planets made mostly of gas and ice.
What are gaseous (gas giant) planets?
If the Moon is half illuminated and the light is increasing, which phase is it?
What is First Quarter?
During which Moon phase must a solar eclipse occur?
What is a New Moon?
If the mass of an object increases, what happens to its gravitational pull?
What is Increases?
The gravitational pull of the Moon mainly causes this ocean movement on Earth.
What are tides?
This is the large system of stars, gas, and dust that our solar system is part of.
What is a galaxy?
A waning gibbous Moon means the Moon is moving toward this phase.
What is Third (Last) Quarter?
During which Moon phase must a lunar eclipse occur?
What is a Full Moon?
What orbital shape do the planets make as they revolve around the Sun?
What is an Ellipse?
When the Southern Hemisphere experiences Winter, the Northern Hemisphere experiences __________
Our solar system is located inside this specific galaxy.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
Explain why the Moon appears to change phases even though its shape never changes.
What is we see different portions of the sunlit half of the Moon as it orbits Earth?
Why don’t eclipses happen every month?
What is the Moon’s orbit is tilted compared to Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
If the Sun suddenly had less mass, how would Earth’s orbit most likely change?
What is Earth would move farther away or its orbit would become larger/weaker?
When the Earth experiences equal amount of daylight and night.
Why are scale models helpful when studying the solar system?
What is they help represent the extremely large sizes and distances that are difficult to visualize?