Moon Phases
Length of the Lunar cycle
What is 29.5 days?
The moon phase during a solar eclipse.
What is a New Moon?
The lowest low tides and the highest tides of the month.
What are Neap Tides and Spring Tides?
The elliptical path an object takes around another celestial object.
What is an orbit?
A natural or artificial object that orbits another in celestial object.
What is a satellite?
The terms for growing and shrinking of the illuminated part of the moon that is viewable from earth.
What is Waxing and Waning?
Moon phase during a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
Moon phases during Spring tides.
What are the Full and New Moon?
The spinning of a celestial object on it's axis.
What is a rotation?
The first man on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The moon phase with the moon between the sun and earth.
What is the New Moon?
The moon moves between the sun and earth and casts a shadow on earth.
What is a Solar eclipse?
The moon phase during Neap tides.
What are the quarter moons?
The closest point on the moon's orbit to earth.
What is Perigee?
The average amount of the moon that is illuminated.
What is half?
The reason why we don't have an eclipse every month.
What is the moon's orbit is titled by 5%, usually its shadow misses the Earth.
The earth moves between the sun and the moon and casts a shadow on the moon.
What is a Lunar eclipse?
The term for the piling of water in line with the moon.
What is the tidal bulge?
The furthest position on the earth's orbit from the sun.
What is Aphelion?
The name of the moon missions that were successful in the 1960-70's.
What is the Apollo missions?
The phase between the Full Moon and the 3rd Quarter moon.
What is the waning gibbous?
The dark shadow of an eclipse.
What is the Umbra?
The position of the earth and the moon during king tides.
What is earth is at the perihelion and the moon is in perigee?
The difference between rotation and revolution.
What is rotation is spinning on the axis and revolution is moving around another object?
The name of the zone between the high tide and low tide lines.
What is the Intertidal zone?