Rotation
What is the rotation of Earth?
The process of the Earth spinning on its axis.
What is a Spring Tide?
Higher high tides and lower low tides that occur during New and Full Moon phases and create a 180 degree angle between the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
What is the only part of the sun visible during a total solar eclipse?
The Corona
What is the first Moon Phase?
New Moon
What angle does the Sun, Earth and Moon make when the Moon is at 1st or 3rd quarter phases?
A 90 degree angle
How long does one rotation of the Earth take?
24.0 Hours.
What is a Neap Tide?
Lower High tides and Higher Low tides that occur during First and Third Quarter Moon Phases. Due to the positioning of the Sun and Moon they both lose effect on the majority of the tide.
Why don't eclipses happen more often then they do?
Because the moon's orbit is tilted five degrees.
Why do Moon Phases occur?
They occur depending on how much light from the sun bounces off of the Moon.
What angle does the Sun, Earth, and Moon make when they are lined up in a line at New and Full phases?
A 180 degree angle
What direction does the Earth rotate in?
The Earth rotates counterclockwise.
What causes the tides?
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
What is the fifth Moon Phase?
Full Moon
What does it mean to "slowly increase?"
Waxing
How long does one rotation and revolution of the Moon take? (They are equivalent)
29.3 Days
What is the Intertidal Zone?
The land that is covered during a high tide, and uncovered during a low tide.
What is the difference between a Partial and Total Solar Eclipse
Partial goes through the penumbra just barely because of the tilt of the Moon's orbit around the Earth, whilst total is completely in line with the Sun and Earth and the Moon blocks the sunlight to Earth for about three minutes.
What is the Moon Phase term called when there is a little sliver of something (light or darkness) on the moon?
Gibbous
Satellites are..?
Natural or Artificial things that revolve around a 'heavenly' body.
What causes the Sun to "rise" and "set?"
Because of its rotation ;)
How many spring and neap tides are there, monthly, and how long do high and low tides typically last for?
There are two of each monthly. High and Low tides typically last about 6 hours each.
How often do eclipses of the Sun occur?
2 times a year.
What does it mean to "slowly decrease?"
What is an Umbra?
The darkest part of a shadow of a 'heavenly' body.