Vocabulary
A scientist who studies the geosphere of planets in our solar system.
When the moon is dark because it is between the Earth and Sun.
What is New Moon?
This is the time of day a lunar eclipse occurs.
What is night?
The word "solar" refers to this massive star at the center of our system.
What is the Sun?
This happens when a solid is in regular temperature or higher.
What is melting?
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way.
What is molecules?
The phase where the moon appears to be more than half, but not fully illuminated.
What is Gibbous?
This eclipse happens two to four times a year.
What is lunar eclipse.
It takes this many days to revolves completely around the earth.
What is 29.5 days?
This happens when water is on the sun too long.
What is evaporation?
A noticeably different form or state of the same substance.
What is phases?
The phase that occurs exactly 14 days after a New Moon.
What is a Full Moon?
What is a Full Moon?
When the moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, it is this type of eclipse.
What is a solar eclipse?
This is noticeably different form or state of the same substance.
What is phase?
The relative size of things.
What is a scale?
The phase where the left of the moon is lit.
What is last/third quarter?
During a total eclipse the moon often turns this color.
What is red?
It takes this long for the Earth to complete one full rotation.
What is 24 hours?
This is a phase change where water vapor cools and turns into liquid water.
What is condensation?
The way molecules on a substance move around relative to each other.
What is freedom of movement?
The right order of all the phases.
What is New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third/Last Quarter, Waning Crescent?
This is the reason a lunar does not occur.
What is a tilt of the moon's orbit?
The sun rises in this direction.
What is the East?
This happens when liquid is in a very cold place.
What is freezing?