What causes seasons?
Earth's tilt in relation to the sun
Earth's makes one full ____________ around the sun every year
What is a revolution?
As the moon revolves around Earth, the portion of the moon that reflects sunlight back to Earth changes, causing the moon's appearance to change.
What are lunar phases?
Circular motion of an object around its axis and it spins counter clockwise
What is a rotation
What does Earth's tilt do?
Causes the seasons
Double Points!!!
Put the phases in order starting with New Moon:
New moon, waning crescent, Full moon, First quarter, waning gibbous, waxing crescent
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, full moon, waning gibbous, waning crescent
When the light is hitting the Earth making an equal amount of daylight and nighttime.
What is an equinox?
What is the angle that Earth tilts at?
23.5 degrees
The moon completes one rotation for every __________ it makes around Earth.
Revolution
What is a gibbous?
when the near side is more than half lit but not fully lit
Spreading cone of lighter shadow
What is a Penumbra?
How often do equinoxes' happen?
2 times a year
Double Points!!!: What season is it in the southern hemisphere in position one?
Fall
What causes the moon phases?
Light from the sun reflecting off of the moon's surface
What phases come before and after a 1st quarter moon?
Waxing crescent and waxing gibbous
How do solar eclipses occur?
When the moon is directly between the sun and Earth, the shadow of the moon falls on a part of Earth
When the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky it is marked by the shortest and longest days of the year.
What is a Solstice?
The winter solstice
What is the shortest day of the year?
Double Points!!: Roughly 383,000 km about a hundred times the distance from New York to Los Angeles
Distance between Earth and the moon?
What does the waxing moon appear to do each day?
Appears to grow
When the moon is in Earth's umbra what eclipse is occurring?
Lunar