Vocabulary
Moon Phases
Seasons
Lunar Cycle
Earth's Revolution
100
When the reflected light on the moon is growing
What is waxing?
100
When the moon is in a straight line between the earth and the Sun and there is no reflected light showing
What is new moon?
100
In the Northern Hemisphere what season is it when the earth's axis is tilted away from the sun?
What is winter?
100
28-29 days
What is the amount of time for one Lunar cycle?
100
The imaginary path a planet or moon travels around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
200
When less than one half of the moon's face is lit with reflected light from the sun.
What is a crescent moon?
200
When the left 1/2 of the moon is lit with reflected light?
What is 3rd Quarter Moon or Last Quarter Moon?
200
In the northern hemisphere what season is it when the earth's axis is tilted toward the sun?
What is summer?
200
The amount of time it takes to move from New Moon to First Quarter moon?
What is about 7 days or 1 week?
200
The season when, the sun is high in the sky and there is very little (if any) shadow on the ground.
What is Summer?
300
When there is equal hours in the day and night and when the Sun shines equally on both hemispheres.
What is an equinox?
300
When all of the moon is lit with reflected light.
What is Full Moon.
300
Which season began on March 19th in the northern hemisphere?
What is spring? or the Spring Equinox
300
Revolving counter clockwise.
What is direction the moon travels around the earth?
300
December 21 in the southern hemisphere.
What is Summer Solstice?
400
When more than one half of the moon's face is lit with reflected light from the sun.
What is a Gibbous Moon?
400
When less than 1/2 of the moon is lit only on the left side of the moon.
What is Waning Crescent?
400
(abt.)June 20th, in the southern hemisphere?
What is Winter Solstice?
400
The Phase after 1st Quarter Moon
What is Waxing Gibbous?
400
It is August 9 and you live in Argentina. What is the next season you will experience beginning September 22?
What is spring?
500
What is another name for the spring equinox?
What is the Vernal Equinox?
500
When over 1/2 of the moon is lit and a sliver of the left side is still dark.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
500
It is 3rd Quarter Moon today, in about 3 days it will be...
What is Waning Crescent?
500
On this date Utah is experiencing the shortest day of the year and Brazil is experiencing the longest day of the year.
What is December 21st?
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