Vocabulary
Earth's Rotation
Earth's Revolution
Lunar Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
This is the term used to describe the 23. 5 degree angle of the Earth.
What is tilt?
100
Earth takes this long to rotate.
What is 24 hours?
100
Earth takes this long to completely revolve around the Sun.
What is 365.25 days?
100
This is how many days the Moon takes to completely revolve around the Earth.
What is 29 days?
100
These are the two seasons that occur when neither the North nor the South Pole are tilted toward the Sun.
What are Spring and Autumn (Fall)?
200
This term is used to describe the path that an object travels in space.
What is orbit?
200
When the Sun is shining on the Eastern Hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere is experiencing this.
What is night?
200
These are caused by the Earth's revolution around the Sun.
What are seasons?
200
This phase is occurring when the Earth is directly in line between the Sun and Moon.
What is Full Moon?
200
This is the number of daylight hours that the Northern Hemisphere experiences when the South Pole is tilted toward the Sun.
What is 10 hours?
300
This is the term that means to spin in place.
What is rotation?
300
Earth rotates in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
300
What season is the Northern Hemisphere experiencing when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun?
What is summer?
300
This phase is occurring when the Moon is seen with only a small amount of light on the left side.
What is waning crescent?
300
These are the phases of the Moon that cause high tides to be higher and low tides to be lower than usual, also known as Spring Tide.
What are New Moon and Full Moon?
400
This is the term that means growing larger.
What is waxing?
400
Earth rotates on this, which is tilted.
What is the axis?
400
This Hemisphere is experiencing winter when the South Pole is tilted toward the Sun.
What is The Northern Hemisphere?
400
This is the phase that is occurring if there is a Solar Eclipse.
What is New Moon?
400
These are the phases of the Moon that cause the least amount of difference between high tide and low tide on Earth, also known as Neap Tide.
What are the First Quarter and the Third Quarter?
500
This is the term that is used to describe one object's motion around another in space.
What is revolution?
500
Because the Earth is tilted at this angle, sometimes the days are longer than the nights.
What is 23.5 degrees?
500
This is the season in the Northern Hemisphere when the Southern Hemisphere experiences 14 hours of day and 10 hours of night.
What is winter?
500
This phase occurs two weeks after the First Quarter.
What is the Third Quarter?
500
A student uses a styrofoam ball and a lamp to model the Sun and Moon, while her head represents the Earth. Although the distances between the ball, her head, and the lamp are not an accurate model of the distances in space, this is what she is modeling.
What is the Lunar Cycle?
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