Eclipses
Label the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during a solar eclipse.
What is the Sun, Moon, Earth?
Name the phase when the Moon is fully illuminated as seen from Earth.
What is a full moon?
How much time occurs between high tides?
What is about 12 hours and 25 minutes?
What is the term for the Moon's path as it travels around Earth?
What is an orbit?
Label the positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during a lunar eclipse.
What is the Sun, Earth, Moon?
Name the phase when the Moon appears completely dark from Earth.
What is a new moon?
What causes high and low tides on Earth?
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun?
How long does it take for the Moon to go through all its phases?
What is about 29.5 days?
Why don’t eclipses occur every time the Moon revolves around Earth?
What is because the Moon’s orbit is tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun?
What is the difference between waning and waxing moons?
Waxing is getting bigger (more light)
Waning is getting smaller (less light)
What is a spring tide?
(you can draw a diagram)
What is a tide with the largest difference between high and low tides, occurring when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned?
What is the definition of an eclipse?
The blocking/obscuring of light from another celestial body.
What phase of the Moon is required for a solar eclipse?
What is a new moon?
Why does the same side of the Moon always face Earth?
The moon's period of rotation equals its period of revolution.
What is a neap tide?
(you can draw a diagram)
What is a tide with the smallest difference between high and low tides, occurring when the Moon is at a right angle to the Sun and Earth?
What causes high and low tides on Earth?
The moons gravitational force.
What phase of the Moon is required for a lunar eclipse?
What is a full moon?
Why are the phases of the Moon considered cyclic?
What is because they repeat in a predictable pattern?
Where does high tide occur relative to Earth and the moon?
What is directly beneath the Moon and on the opposite side of Earth?
Why do we not have eclipses every month?
The moons orbit is inclined/on a tilt.