Solar System
Cloud of dust and gas that are the remains of an exploded star.
What is a Nebula?
The spinning motion of Earth on its axis.
What is Rotation?
The most accepted theory name for how the Moon formed.
What is The Giant Impact Theory?
The Moon takes about this long to complete one orbit of Earth.
What is 1 month?
Every shoreline on Earth experiences this many high tides each day.
What is 2 high tides?
Most accepted theory name for how Solar System formed.
What is the Nebular Theory?
The motion of Earth around the Sun.
What is Revolution?
The name of the planetissimal that slammed into Earth to cause the Moon's formation.
What is Theia?
When the lighted side of the Moon becomes more visible over several nights, it is said to be __.
What is Waxing?
The other cause for high tides besides the Moon and Sun's gravity?
What is Centrifugal Force of the Earth?
The planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
Earth's rotation is the cause of this phenomenon on Earth.
What is Day and Night?
The pieces of the planetissimal and Earth that got ejected into space came together because of this force.
What is Gravity?
The phase when none of the lighted side of the Moon is visible from Earth.
What is a New Moon?
The name for the special type of tide that happens when high tides are a little lower, and low tides are a little higher.
What are Neap Tides?
The closest Gas Giant to Earth.
What is Jupiter?
When neither hemisphere of Earth is tilted towards the Sun, Earth experiences these two seasons.
What is Fall and Spring?
The theory name for the Moon's formation described as the Moon coming from somewhere else in the Solar System and being caught by Earth's gravity.
What is The Capture Theory?
The Moon is said to be _ when the lighted side of the Moon is on the left side when viewed from Earth.
What is Waning?
This is what happens when one object passes into the shadow of another object.
What is an Eclipse?
Inner planets are dense with rocky surfaces and are known as these types of planets because of this.
What are Terrestrial Planets?
The two things about Earth that cause the seasons.
What are tilt and revolution?
Earth is about this many years old according to science investigations.
What is 4.5 Billion years old?
The phase name for when most, but not all of the lighted side of the Moon is visible from Earth.
What is Gibbous?
When a part of the Earth passes into the shadow of the Moon, this occurs.
What is a Solar Eclipse?