Earth
This causes the Earth's seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
This is the the most important cause of Earth's seasons?
Earth's tilt on it's axis combined with it's revolution around the Sun.
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
This keeps the Earth and moon in their orbits.
What is "gravity"?
The Sun Moon and Earth line up during this type on tide. It could be new moon phase or full moon. It causes a higher than usual high tide.
What is during spring tide?
the closed and nearly circular path created by Earth's revolution around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
a day when fall or spring begins
What is an equinox?
The Moon's revolution around the Earth
What is the cause of the Moon's changing phases?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete on full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This eclipses happens when the moon is between the earth and the sun
What is the solar?
he day when summer or winter begins
What is a solstice?
During this phase of the moon, we can see no light from the moon.
What is a "new moon"?
This object is used to study far away objects in the sky.
What is a "telescope"?
The Sun, moon and Earth form a right angle during this type of tide. It causes higher than usual low tides.
How are Sun, Moon and Earth positioned during a neap tide?
When it is winter in North America, it is this in Australia.
What is "summer"?
During these two days of the year there is and EQUAL amount of daylight and darkeness.
What is a fall and spring equinox?
This is the phases split the new moon
What is crescent or crescent sisters
The sun appears higher in the sky during this time of year because of the tilt of the earth.
What is "summer"?
This type of eclipses occurs when the Earth is between the sun and the moon
What is lunar?
The imaginary line horizontally around the middle of the Earth.
What is the "equator"?
This is how the sun's rays strike the Earth in the summer.
What is "directly"?
The moon affects this part of the Earth, changing it daily on our beaches.
What is the "ocean tide"?
We have this special day every 4 years in February because it takes the Earth 365 and 1/4 days to revolve around the sun.
What is "Leap Year Day"?
Most locations on Earth have two low tides and two high tides each day due to this movement that Earth makes.
What is a rotation?