Grab Bag
Labs
Moons
Eclipses
Tides
100
The study of the universe.
What is astronomy?
100
The lab we did outside testing how far the tennis ball would go.
What is the sling shot lab?
100
The change in the sunlit area of one celestial body as seen from another celestial body.
What is a phase?
100
An event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another.
What is an eclipse?
100
The periodic rise and fall of the water level in the oceans and other large bodies of water.
What is a tide?
200
Roughly the time required for the Moon to orbit once around the Earth.
What is a month? (The word month comes from the word moon.)
200
Tested males and females to determine sight and sound times.
What is the reaction timer lab?
200
A natural or artificial body that revolves around a planet.
What is a satellite?
200
When the shadow of the moon falls on the earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
The difference in levels of ocean water at high tide and low tide.
What is a tidal range?
300
Small, solid objects moving through space that have entered Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteoroid?
300
The variable that is changed.
What is a manipulated variable?
300
5 degrees relative to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
What is the tilted orbit of the moon?
300
When the shadow of the Earth falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
Four tides. Two high and two low.
What is the number of tides per day in most places?
400
A telescope that uses a curved mirror to gather and focus light from distant objects.
What is a reflecting telescope?
400
The variable that responds to the manipulated variable.
What is a responding variable?
400
The changing position of the moon relative to the Sun and Earth.
What is the reason we see the phases of the moon?
400
A partial shadow, as in an eclipse, between regions of complete shadow and complete illumination.
What is a penumbra?
400
The gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun on Earth's particles.
What is the reason we have tides?
500
Not burning like a fire. But fusion which is a nuclear reaction.
What is the heat inside the Sun produced by?
500
The order of the planets from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
500
Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa.
What are the four largest moons of Jupiter?
500
What people see that are in the umbra during an eclipse.
What is a total eclipse?
500
The Moon's affect on Earth's particles.
What is the gravity of the moon pulls on every particle of the Earth?
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