Vocabulary
Characteristics of Earth, Sun & Moon
Seasons
Eclipses
Moon Phases & Tides
100
to turn or spin as on an axis
What is rotate?
100
The Sun is made up of this.
What are hot gases called plasma?
100
This causes seasons.
What is Earth's tilt on its axis.
100
This occurs when the Moon passes through Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
This is the moon phase that occurs after the new moon.
What is a waxing crescent moon?
200
to move on a path around an object
What is revolve?
200
This provides light and heat for Earth.
What is reactions among particles in the core of the Sun?
200
The Sun's rays strike Earth at an angle and spread out during this season.
What is winter?
200
This occurs when the Moon blocks out the light of the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
This moon phase ocurs after a waning gibbous moon.
What is a third quarter moon?
300
the path of an object that revolves around another object
What is an orbit?
300
Earth's rotation on its axis causes this.
What is one day?
300
This is the season in the northern hemisphere when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun.
What is summer?
300
This is the phase of the Moon during a solar eclipse.
What is New Moon?
300
High tides are very high and low tides are very low during this tide.
What is a spring tide?
400
gradually getting bigger
What is waxing?
400
Earth's revolution around the Sun causes this.
What is one year?
400
This is the season in the northern hemisphere when the Earth is closest to the Sun in its elliptical orbit.
What is winter?
400
This is the phase of the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is a Full Moon?
400
Earth, Sun and Moon form a right angle during this tide.
What is a neap tide?
500
gradually getting smaller
What is waning?
500
Because Earth spins west to east.
What does it appear that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west?
500
This is the season when your noontime shadow would be the shortest.
What is summer?
500
This occurs when the Moon's umbra completely misses Earth and only the penumbra passes over.
What is a partial solar eclipse?
500
Because Moon takes the same amount of time to complete one rotation and one revolution.
What is the reason we always see the same side of the Moon?
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