Earth
Amount of hours in one day
What is 24 hours?
Number of phases of the moon
What is 8 phases?
Refers to an object's spinning motion about its own axis
What is rotation?
Seasons listed in order starting Spring
What is Spring, Summer, Fall, & Winter?
Cloud coverage causes...
What is indirect sunlight?
Latitude line crossing through the earth
What is the equator?
We see the same side of the moon because...
What is moon rotates and revolves at the same rate
What do we call the motion when one object goes around (orbits) another object?
What is revolution?
When the north end of Earth’s axis is tilted away from the sun, North America will experience which season?
What is winter?
This affects seasons
What is tilt?
When the earth regularly makes one revolution around the sun
What is one year?
The moon must be directly between Earth and the sun
What is solar eclipse?
Total solar eclipse's are rare because...
What is the moon’s umbra (shadow) only covers a tiny area of earth?
When we go from summer to winter in the Northern Hemisphere what happens to the sunlight? (direct/indirect)
What is the indirect angle of light?
A remarkable event
What is a phenomenon?
Why does the earth have seasons?
What is a tilted axis moving around the sun?
Eclipses happen because of...
What is the moon, sun, and earth aligned with each other?
Approximately the amount of days between a new moon and full moon
What is 14 days or 2 weeks?
What causes the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere to experience opposite seasons?
What is when one hemisphere receives more direct light, the other hemisphere receives less direct sunlight?
Eclipse in which the sun is obscured (hidden) by the moon
What is solar eclipse?
This causes day and night
What is the earth's rotation on an axis?
During which moon phase(s) does the moon appear to be cut in half?
What is first quarter & third quarter phase?
What do you notice happens from a new moon to a full moon?
What is getting bigger?
When both the Northern & Southern Hemispheres experience roughly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime
What is equinox?
Eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow
What is lunar eclipse?