Vocabulary
The Earth does this on its' axis.
What is rotate?
Seasons are opposite in these two hemispheres.
What is Northern and Southern?
All of the phases of the moon.
What is the Lunar Cycle?
When one object blocks out another object.
What is an eclipse?
All of the light that we can see.
What is visible light?
The Earth does this around the Sun.
What is revolve?
Two things that create seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of the Earth and the Earth revolving around the sun?
First phase of the lunar cycle.
What is the new moon?
Created when an eclipse happens.
These are different depending on the color.
What are wavelengths?
The is what causes day and night on Earth.
What is the rotation of the Earth?
Long days, short nights and warm temperatures.
What is summer?
Phase of the moon when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon?
What is a full moon?
What is a lunar eclipse?
What is blue and what is red?
When the light on the moon appears to be growing.
What is waxing?
Reason for winter.
What is tilted away from the sun?
Phase of the moon when the moon is directly between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a new moon?
Type of eclipse that can only happen during a new moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
When there is less atmosphere to travel through these wavelengths scatter first.
What is blue and short?
When the light on the moon appears to be shrinking.
What is waning?
Area on Earth that receives the most direct sunlight all of the time.
What is the equator?
Mrs. Bartels' favorite moon phase.
What is a crescent moon?
Eclipse that lasts the longest.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The colors and wavelengths that travel further when the sun is low in the sky (sunrise or sunset).
What are reds (pinks, oranges) and longer wavelengths.