Shadows
The Sun rises in the ____.
What is the East?
The dark areas created by an object that stops or blocks light.
What is a shadow?
We have this when we are on the part of Earth that faces the Sun.
What is day?
The moon revolves around this.
What is a planet?
Our Moon revolves around Earth.
Compare and Contrast Day and Night
Day - The Sun is shining brightly. We are on the part of the Earth facing the Sun.
Night - We are in the Earth's shadow, facing away from the Sun. We can see the stars and the Moon.
The Sun sets in the ____.
What is the West?
Earth's spinning motion on its axis.
What is rotation?
We have this when we are in Earth's shadow, as we face away from the Sun.
What is night?
This is what we call the cycle that the Moon moves through over the course of a month.
What are phases of the Moon?
Compare and Contrast waxing and waning Moon phases.
Waxing - the Moon is appearing bigger
Waning - the Moon is appearing smaller
Shadows are shortest at this time of day.
What is noon?
Getting bigger (the Moon appearing to get bigger each night)
What is waxing?
This is the cause of day and night.
What is Earth's rotation?
This is the first phase of the Moon. During this phase we don't see the Moon from Earth.
What is the New Moon?
Compare and contrast sunrise and sunset
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Shadows are longest just after sunrise and just before sunset.
Shadows are longest at these points of the day.
What is just after sunrise and just before sunset?
Getting smaller (the Moon appearing to be getting smaller every night).
What is waning?
One rotation of Earth takes this long.
What is 24 hours?
This phase occurs two weeks after the New Moon. The Earth is between the Sun and the Moon during this phase.
What is the Full Moon?
Compare and contrast rotation and revolution.
Rotation - Earth spinning on it's axis. It takes 24 hours.
Revolution - Earth moving around the Sun. Earth's revolution takes 365 days.
1) Your shadow points in this direction when the Sun is in the West.
2) Your shadow points in this direction when the Sun is in the East.
1) What is the East?
2) What is West?
Moving around something, such as Earth traveling around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
Earth rotates on this.
What is Earth's axis?
The Moon is ____ Earth diameters away from Earth.
What is 30 Earth diameters?
Compare and Contrast shadows at sunrise, early morning, mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon, late afternoon, and sunset.
Shadows are longest just after sunrise and just before sunset. They are long early in the morning and get shorter as the morning moves on. Shadows are shortest at noon. They grow throughout the afternoon and are longest again just before sunset.