The continuous change of position of a body with respect to a second body or to a reference point that is fixed.
What is relative motion?
100
Occurs in June and marks the beginning of the summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Summer Solstice?
100
The gravitational pull from the sun and moon combine to make high tides really high and low tides really low.
What is Spring Tide?
100
The name of the moon phase used to describe a moon without any visible light showing.
What is New Moon?
100
The eclipse that may occur when the earth is located between the sun and the moon.
What is lunar eclipse?
200
A planet’s natural satellite.
What is a moon?
200
Occurs in March and marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Vernal Equinox?
200
The sun and the moon are at right angles and the gravitational force of the two cancel each other out causing there to be less of a difference in the high tides and low tides.
What is Neap Tide?
200
The term used to describe when the moon is greater than half full, but not completely illuminated.
What is gibbous?
200
The eclipse that may occur when the moon is located between the earth and the sun.
What is solar eclipse?
300
The partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designated observer, of one celestial body by another.
What is an eclipse?
300
Occurs in September and marks the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Autumnal Equinox?
300
The tide that forms when the earth, moon, and sun are all located in a straight line.
What is Spring Tide?
300
The name of the phase used to describe a sliver of light on the moon.
What is Crescent?
300
The reason for not having more eclipses than we do.
What is the moon's orbit tilted 5 degrees?
400
The act or process of turning around a center or an axis.
What is rotation?
400
Occurs in December and marks the beginning of the Winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Winter Solstice?
400
The force that causes tides to occur.
What is gravity?
400
In addition to Waxing Crescent and Waxing Gibbous, this is also a waxing phase.
What is First Quarter?
400
Eclipse have been known to occur during Neap Tides.
(True or False?)
What is false?
500
A point defined with reference to another position, either fixed or moving.
What is relative position?
500
The divisions of the year characterized by variations in the relative lengths of day and night and in the amount of heat received from the sun.
What are seasons?
500
The approximate number of hours that pass between one high tide and the next.
What is 12 hours?
500
The phase of the moon that follows a Waxing Crescent.
What is Third or Last Quarter?
500
The relative position of the Moon during a high tide is in these two locations.