Moon Phases
The moon looks like a crescent on the right
What is a waxing crescent?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
This causes the seasons.
A big cloud of gas and dust
What is step 1 of the nebulae theory?
This theorist discovered gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton
The moon is Moore than halfway lit on the left
What is a waning gibbous?
23.5 degrees
What is the angle that Earth is tilted on its axis?
The sun’s path is shorter and sits lower in the sky
What is winter?
The a star forms at the center of the flattened disk?
What is Step 3 of the Nebular Theory?
This is a force that pulls objects towards Earth’s center
What is gravity?
The phases of the moon that appear on the left side
What are the waning phases?
365 days and 6 hours
What is Earths revolution around the sun?
The suns path is longer and sits higher in the sky.
What is summer?
This theorist was the first to describe the Nebular theory?
Who is Capernicus?
An object that is launched.
What is a projectile?
It takes the moon this long to orbit the Earth.
What is 27.3 days?
These all rise from east and sets on the west.
What is the sun, moon and stars?
The longest day on earth?
What is the summer solstice?
This theorist added to the Nebular theory.
Who is Kant?
This is the shape that a projectile forms when it goes from being launched to falling downward.
What is a projectile?
For this reason we only see one side of the moon.
What is synchronized rotation? (Moon revolves around the earth at the same rate that it takes to rotate around its axis, which is 27.3 days).
The Moon-Earth-Sun are all aligned and in the same plane.
What is a Lunar Eclipse? (The Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon, the moon appears darkened or blood red).
The one day on earth where day and night are equal with regards to how many hours we have in daylight and sunlight.
What is the equinox?
Used a telescope to prove that Earth is not the center of the universe.
Who is Galileo?
As acceleration increases, direction stays the same but speed increases.
What happens when acceleration and velocity are in the same direction?