Earth
What is revolution?
Why do we have seasons on Earth?
A. The distance between the Earth and Sun.
B. The tilt of the Earth's axis as it revolves the Sun.
C. The rotation of Earth.
D. All of the above.
What is the tilt of the Earth as it revolves around the sun? (B)
The amount of sunlight shining on the moon
What is half?
The cause of tides
The gravitational pull of the moon.
New moon is the phase in which this type of eclipse can happen.
What is a solar eclipse
The Earth takes this long to rotate on its axis
What is 24 hours
Season that occurs when the hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
What is "winter"?
What causes the phases of the Moon?
A. The Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon.
B. How much of the sunlit side of the moon we see from Earth.
C. How much of the moon is lit by the sun.
D. The moon changes shape as it revolves around the Earth.
What is how much of the sunlit side of the moon we see from Earth. (B)
The tides that have the highest and lowest tide heights in a month
What are spring tides
Moon phase creating a lunar eclipse
What is a full moon
The Earth takes this long to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days or 1 year
Season and axis' location when receiving direct sunlight and longer days
What is "summer and tilted towards the sun"?
The phase of the moon that occurs just before the new moon
What is waning crescent?
The Earth Moon and Sun are in a straight line during this type of tide.
What is a spring tide?
The moon moves between the Earth and the Sun and the moon's shadow falls on the Earth
What is a solar eclipse?
This causes day and night
What is "earth's rotation"?
Indirect sunlight and shorter daytime hours
What is winter?
The direction both the moon and the Earth revolve
What is the "counterclockwise"?
Tide that occurs when the Earth moon and sun are at right angles to each other.
What is a neap tide
The arrangement of the Earth Moon and sun during a lunar eclipse.
What is Sun, Earth, Moon?
or What is Moon, Earth Sun?
Where the sun's rays are most direct all year round
What is the "equator"?
Which is true about the Fall and Spring equinox?
A. Both hemispheres receive the same amount of direct sunlight.
B. Both hemispheres have equal day and night.
C. Neither hemisphere is tilted towards the sun.
D. All of the above.
D. All of the above.
neither hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, same amount of direct sunlight, equal day and night hours
What is "in between the high tide areas"?
Fishermen, ship's captains, and people who are doing stuff at the beach should all be aware of this.
What are the heights of the tides? or
What are high tides and low tides?
The moon moves behind the Earth and the Earth's shadow falls on the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?