Vocabulary
This is what the Earth is doing to have day and night
What is the Earth rotates on its axis?
Earth has this much more of a gravity pull than the moon.
What is six times.?
This happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun in a direct line.
What is a solar eclipse?
This is the two names of the special tides that occur either in a straight line or at a 90 degree angle.
What are spring and neap tides?
This is the shape of the moons orbit around the Earth.
What is an oval (or flattened circle)?
This is the year humans first landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
This ____________ of the moon depends on how much of the sunlit side of the moon faces the Earth.
What is a phase?
This is the imaginary line that passes through Earths center and poles.
What is its axis?
Each of the two days when we have equal day and night
What is an equinox?
When the moon goes around the earth, this is the phase that happens when the moon is between the sun and the Earth.
What is a new moon?
An eclipse of the moon only happens during this phase.
What is a full moon?
Differences in the moon's pull on different parts of the Earth cause these.
What are tides?
This occurs in September and marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the autumnal equinox?
This is the name of the two days when we have the longest and shortest days of the year
What are solstices?
This can only happen when the shadow of the Earth and the moon in its orbit are aligned.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is the darkest part of the moon's shadow
What is the umbra?
The force of this pulls the moon and the Earth towards each other.
What is gravity?
This hemisphere has summer when the axis is tilted away from the sun.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
What is the correct order, starting with the sun, for a lunar eclipse to occur?
What is sun, earth, moon?
Because the Earth rotates we get high tides this many times each day.
What is two?
This is the names of the seas on the moon.
What are Marias?
A person would see a partial solar eclipse if they are standing in the moon's what?
What is the moon's penumbra?
These are the 8 phases of the moon
What are: New Moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd quarter, waning crescent?