MOVES & SEASONS
The Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours.
What is rotation?
This phase is when the moon is completely dark/invisible.
What is a New Moon?
This celestial body is blocked during a Solar Eclipse.
What is the Sun?
The force that pulls water toward the Moon.
What is Gravity?
The invisible line the Earth spins on.
What is the Axis?
The Earth travels around the Sun once every 365 days.
What is revolution?
This word means the light on the moon is "growing."
What is Waxing?
This celestial body is blocked during a Lunar Eclipse.
What is the Moon?
The tide that creeps up the beach and covers the sand.
What is High Tide?
The path the Earth takes around the Sun.
What is an Orbit?
This tilt (23.5 degrees) is the main reason we have these.
What are the seasons?
This phase looks like a banana or letter C.
What is a Crescent?
The phase of the moon required for a Solar Eclipse to happen.
What is a New Moon?
The tide with the greatest difference between high and low.
What is a Spring Tide?
Half of the Earth (Northern or Southern).
What is a Hemisphere?
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, we have this season.
What is winter?
This phase is completely round and very bright.
What is a Full Moon?
The color the Moon often turns during a total Lunar Eclipse.
What is Red (or Blood Moon/Orange)?
The tide that happens when the Sun and Moon are at a 90 degree angle (weak tides).
What is a Neap Tide?
When the moon is more than half lit, but not full (swollen).
What is Gibbous?
It is not the distance from the Sun, but the _____ of sunlight that causes heat.
What is the Angle (or Directness) of sunlight?
This phase rises at noon and sets at midnight (half-lit).
What is the First Quarter?
The scientific word for when the Earth, Sun, and Moon align in a straight line.
What is Syzygy?
The two moon phases that cause Spring Tides.
What are New Moon and Full Moon?
The name for the darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse.
What is the Umbra?