Vocabulary
When the moon is fully lit
What is a full moon?
Full Moon
The phase after new moon
What is Waxing Crescent?
The action of spinning on an axis.
What is a rotation?
Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
What are the seasons?
A small sliver of light
What is a crescent?
New Moon
(Shaded In)
The phase before Full Moon
What is Waxing Gibbous?
The action of moving around another object.
What is revolution?
This causes the seasons
What does the Earth's tilt and revolution cause?
When half of the moon is lit on the right side
What is 1st Quarter?
Waning Crescent
The phase before Waning Crescent
What is 3rd (Last) Quarter?
How long it takes the moon to go through a full cycle of phases (one revolution).
What is one month (~28 days)?
Summer in the northern hemisphere & Winter in the Southern hemisphere
When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun it is___?
When the light is shrinking or getting smaller from the left.
What is waning?
Waxing Gibbous
(Bulge of white on the right)
The phase after Waning Crescent
What is New Moon?
How long does it take for Earth to make one complete rotation?
What is 24 hours (1 day)?
When it is fall in South America it is this season in Ohio.
What is spring?
When the light is "growing" from the right.
What is waxing?
(Left half is white; Right half is shaded)
The phase after First Quarter
What is Waxing Gibbous?
How long does it take for Earth to make one full revolution around the Sun?
What is 365 days (1 year)?
It is either of these seasons when the sun's rays are hitting the equator at a 90 degree angle.
What is spring or fall?