Vocab
Moon Phases
Seasons
Gravity & Such
Eclipses & Tides
100
Equal day and night
What is Equinox
100

Increasing in size

What is waxing?

100

Longest Day of the Year & Mrs. Shields' favorite!

What is the summer solstice

100
Two factors that determine the strength of the force of gravity between two objects
What is distance and mass
100
The tide with the greatest high tide and lowest low tide
What is Spring Tide
200
Path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
What is Orbit
200
How long does it take the moon to complete one cycle
What is 29.5 days
200
Shortest Day of the Year
What is the Winter Solstice
200

Larger planets have more...

What is mass &/or  gravity

200

Occurs only during a new moon

What is a solar eclipse?

300

Day and Night

What is rotation?

300

Phase following (after) New Moon

What is waxing crescent?

300

March 20ish and September 20ish

What are the equinoxes?

300
As mass increases, gravity...
What is increases
300
Spring tides occur during these moon phases
What is Full Moon and New Moon
400

The shape of orbits

What is ellipse?

400
The side that is illuminated during the third quarter

What is the left side?

400

Earth's tilt and revolution causes

What is seasons

400
Determines your weight

What is the force of gravity?

400

ECLIPSE - SUN, MOON, EARTH in that order

What is a solar eclipse

500
Moon Shape that is Between Half and Full
What is Gibbous
500

to be lit up

What is illumination?

500

Birds migrate, trees lose leaves, we store and harvest food because

What is a decrease in amount of daylight?

500

Remains the same no matter where you are in the universe.

What is your mass?

500
Moon, sun, and earth are at right angles
What is a Neap Tide
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