Earth
True/False: Earth revolves on its axis once a year.
What is false? It revolves on its axis once a day!
The phase of the Moon directly after a new Moon.
What is waxing crescent?
Why the moon seems to change shape
What is sunlight is reflecting off the moon and that is the part of the moon we see from Earth?
When the moon's shape is smaller than a semicircle, but not completely dark, it is a ________moon.
What is crescent?
A regular rise and fall of water along a shoreline
What is a tide?
The phase of the Moon when there is a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
The moon orbits the Earth once every month and each orbit takes about how many days?
What is 27.3 days?
When the moon is waxing, it is _______
What is growing (getting bigger)?
The main cause of the regular rise and fall of ocean tides on Earth
What is the gravitational pull of the moon on Earth’s oceans?
When there is summer happening, that means that the hemisphere of Earth that is having summer is tilted ____________ the Sun.
What is toward?
This is called ________ when the left side of the moon is lit.
What is waxing?
The number of days a year that a solstice and equinox occur?
What is 2? Equinox = beginning of spring and fall, Solstice = beginning of summer and winter
The phase of the Moon when there is a solar eclipse.
What is the new moon?
The total of amount times a day there is a high tide and a low tide
What is 2?
This is when the Earth axis is tilted the most toward or away from the Sun.
What is solstice?
When the moon is waning this is happening to the moon.
What is the light reflected on the moon that is getting smaller and smaller (we are seeing less and less of the moon at night)?
The reason why Earth orbits the Sun.
What is gravitational pull from the Sun which has a HUGE MASS and keeps all of the other planets in orbit too?
This is the waxing Moon phase where one half of the Moon's lighted surface can be seen from Earth. (take a moment and visualize the phases before answering...)
What is first quarter? A quarter moon =a half Moon, a half moon is a quarter moon.
This happens when Earth's water bulges on the Moon-facing side of Earth as well as a bulge forming on the side facing away from the Moon.
What is high tide and the water level rises where the bulge is?
The tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the Sun creates these.
What are seasons?
When the Moon is directly between Earth and the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
When the Earth's shadow falls on the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
When the Earth is directly between the Moon and the Sun
What is a lunar eclipse?
True/False: The Sun, because it is so big in mass has more effect on tides than the Moon.
What is False? The Moon has the most effect on tides because it is closer, the Sun does have some effect but it is minimal compared to the Moon's effect!