6.1 Earth's Motion
This motion of Earth on its axis takes approximately 24 hours and causes day and night.
What is rotation?
The side of the moon that can only be seen from space.
What is the far side of the moon?
The color of the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is red/orange?
The formula “distance divided by time” is used to calculate this.
What is speed?
Earth's path around the Sun that takes roughly 365 days.
What is revolution?
The large dark areas seen on the surface of the Moon.
What is maria?
An event that happens when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, blocking the Sun’s light.
What is a solar eclipse?
A change in velocity.
What is acceleration?
This imaginary line runs through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis?
The length of the moon's rotation and revolution.
What is 27.3 days?
When high tides are at their highest.
What is a spring tide?
Newton’s law that states objects will stay at rest or in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law?
The month in which the southern hemisphere receives the most solar energy.
When is December?
The direction the moon waxes and wanes in.
What is right to left?
Occurring when the Sun and Moon are at right angles.
What are Neap tides?
The force that attracts all objects with mass toward each other, especially noticeable on Earth.
What is gravity?
The month in which the Earth is closest to the sun.
When is January?
The phase that comes right after a full moon, when the Moon appears to get smaller each night.
What is a waning gibbous?
When the moon is in the Earth's penumbra.
What is a partial lunar eclipse?
The two formulas for acceleration.
What are
a=f/m
a= (v2-v1)/t
?