Day and Night
Imaginary straight line that connects the North Pole to the South Pole that is tilted at 23.5 degrees.
What is the Earth's Axis?
Imaginary line that separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
It takes this long for the moon to revolve completely around the Earth.
What is 29 days or about a month?
The rise and fall of the water on Earth throughout the day.
What is the "ocean tide"?
The path that the Earth follows to revolve around the sun.
What is Earth's orbit?
The day that the northern hemisphere first tilts towards the sun and marks the beginning of the new season.
What is the Summer Solstice?
Term to describe when ocean tides are at their highest throughout the day.
What is high tide?
Term used for Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
Term to describe when both hemispheres are receiving equal amount of light from the sun.
What is an equinox?
Reason why an eclipse doesn't happen every new moon and full moon.
What is the orbit of the moon around Earth is at a different angle?
Celestial body that has the most influence on the tides throughout the day because it is the closest.
What is the moon?
The amount of time it takes for Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Season the southern hemisphere is experiencing when tilted away from the sun.
What is winter?
Phase of moon during a solar eclipse.
What is a new moon?
Type of tides we experience when the Sun-Earth-Moon are in a straight line.
What are spring tides?
Term to describe the following dates: June 23rd and December 23rd
What is solstice?
Reason why from Earth we only see one side of the moon.
What is the moon revolves and rotates at the same speed?
Phase of moon during a lunar eclipse?
What is a full moon?
During the 1st quarter moon phase, ocean tides will have minimal difference between high tide and low tide.
What is neap tides?