Vocabulary
Earth's Seasons
The Moon
Eclipses
Tides
100
The large, dark, flat areas on the moon
What is maria?
100
The reason we have seasons.
What is earth's tilt?
100
The moon phase in which none of the lighted surface of the Moon can be seen from the Earth.
What is new Moon?
100
The amount of time that a solar eclipse last.
What is 7 minutes?
100
The rise and fall of sea level.
What is a tide?
200
The motion of one object around another object.
What is revolution?
200
A day when Earth's rotation axis is the most toward or away from the sun.
What is a solstice?
200
The Moon phase where all of the lighted side of the Moon can be seen from the Earth.
What is full Moon?
200
This occurs when the Moon moves into earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
How often do tides occur?
What is daily?
300
The central, darker part of the shadow where light is totally blocked.
What is umbra?
300
A day when Earth's rotation axis is leaning along Earth's orbit, neither toward no away from the Sun.
What is equinox?
300
A large object hit earth, throwing bits into space. The pieces floated around and eventually came together to make the moon.
What is theory for how the moon was formed?
300
This occurs when the Moon's shadow appears on Earth's surface.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
The number of days it takes the moon to rotate and revolve.
What is 27.3 days?
400
When more of the moon's near side is lit each night.
What is waxing?
400
This causes light and heat to be more concentrated at Earth's equator and more spread out at Earth's poles.
What is Earth's curves?
400
A waning Moon phase in which half of the lighted side of the Moon can be seen from the Earth.
What is third quarter?
400
This is the reason for why we do not see a lunar eclipse every full moon.
What is the tilt of the Moon's orbit does not line up with the tilt of Earth's orbit.
400
The reason why we have Neap tides and Spring tides.
What is the gravitational pull of the sun.
500
The lit part of the Moon or a planet that can be seen from Earth.
What is a phase?
500
The sun is highest in the sky during this season.
What is the summer solstice?
500
A waxing Moon phase oin which one half of the Moon's lighted surface can be seen from Earth.
What is first quarter?
500
The phase that the solar eclipse can be seen in.
What is the new Moon phase?
500
This force is most responsible for tides.
What is the gravity of the moon?
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