Vocabulary
Tides
What is the daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on its coastlines?
A rock collided with Earth and a piece broke off
What is how the moon formed?
The amount of light that we can see on earth from the sun's reflection off of the moon
What is a moon phase?
The imaginary line that passes through the center of the earth
What is the axis?
When the sun and moon are inline with each other and their gravitational pull is in the same direction, this type of tide occurs.
What is a spring tide?
Lunar Eclipse
What is the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and moon?
Dark areas/seas on the moon
What are huge areas of dark lava?
The word for our increasing view of the lit portion of the moon
What is waxing?
The movement of one object around another
What is revolution?
Type of tide that occurs during the first quarter phase of the moon.
What is a neap tide?
Revolution
Tides, light at night, less wobbly rotation
What are the effects of the moon on the Earth?
The term for the moon phase in which the moon is between the sun and earth
What is New Moon?
The season that occurs when the hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
What is winter?
How often a high tide occurs in one day
What is twice?
Neap tides
What is a tide with the least difference between high and low tide, that occurs when the sun an moon pull at right angles to each other at the first and third quarts of the moon phases?
The length of the lunar cycle
What is 29.5 days?
This is the phases of the moon in which a lunar eclipse can happen
What is full moon?
This type of sunlight happens in the summer
The type of tide that has larger difference in high and low tide
What is a spring tide?
Indirect sunlight
What is more scattered heat from the sun, tending to cover a larger area such as the poles during winter?
The reason the moon's craters have not eroded over time
What is there is no atmosphere or weather on the moon?
This is the direction that the lit portion of the moon is reavealed.
What is from right to left?
These two things cause earth's seasons
What are earth's revolution and earth's tilt?
The difference in high and low tides
What is tidal range?