Earth's Motion
Lunar Phases
Eclipses
More about the Moon
Vocab.
100
The yearly orbit of Earth around the Sun is called its ____.
revolution
100
During ________ phases, more of the Moon’s near side is seen each night.
waxing
100
A _______ eclipse occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.
lunar
100
Name this phase
East West
full moon
100
the path an object follows as it moves around another object.
orbit
200
Summer occurs on the hemisphere of Earth that is ____ toward the Sun.
tilted
200
The phase of the Moon that comes right before the new moon is the ____.
waning crescent
200
A lunar eclipse only occurs during a _____ moon phase.
full
200
Name this phase
East West
new moon
200
the line on which an object rotates.
rotation axis
300
The summer solstice occurs in June in the northern hemisphere and in ________ in the southern hemisphere.
December
300
Which phase of the moon is shown in this picture of the sky at midnight?
East West
first quarter
300
A ____ _____occurs when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and Earth and throws a shadow on Earth.
solar eclipse
300
What phase is 4 in the image?
waxing crescent
300
when Earth's rotation axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the Sun.
equinox
400
Earth’s rotational axis is always tilted in the _______ ________. For half of the year, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun and the other half of the year the southern hemisphere is slanted toward the Sun.
same direction
400
Which phase of the moon is shown in this picture of the sky at midnight?
East West
third quarter
400
The longest a total solar eclipse is about how long?
7 minutes
400
What phase is 2 in the image?
Waning Gibbous
400
When Earth's rotation axis is tilted directly toward or away from the Sun.
solstice
500
The ______ on which an object rotates is defined as rotation axis.
line
500
During waxing phases, ______ of the Moon is visible each night.
more
500
A solar eclipse doesn't occur ever new moon, because the Moon’s orbit around Earth and Earth’s orbit around the Sun are not in the _____ ______, so the three bodies only line up occasionally.
same plane
500
Roughly, what percentage of light does the moon reflect?
12 percent
+-2% get points 10%-14%
+-10% don't lose points 2%-22%,
OR closest wins points 500 points (if no group guess within 10%)
500
the central, darker part of a shadow where light is totally blocked.
umbra