Vocabulary
Moon Phases
Seasons
Eclipses
This and That
100
An imaginary vertical line that cuts through Earth
What is an axis?
100
8
What is number of moon phases?
100
The Northern Hemisphere (U.S.) is towards the sun.
What is summer?
100
Occurs during the day
What is a solar eclipse?
100
Center most point of the moon.
What is the core?
200
The dark-colored flat regions on the Moon
What is the maria?
200
The direction the reflection from the sun moves
What is right to left?
200
March and Fall, equal amounts of daylight and nighttime
What is equinox?
200
Occurs at night
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
Darkest shadow on Earth during an eclipse
What is an umbra?
300
The shape of Earth
What is a sphere?
300
Increasing, getting bigger
What is waxing?
300
Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice occur
What is June and December?
300
Occurs during a new moon
What is a solar eclipse?
300
Lighter shadow on Earth during an eclipse
What is a penumbra?
400
Spins on an imaginary axis, taking 24 hours causing day and night
What is rotation?
400
The 8 moon phases, in order
What is new moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd/last quarter, waning crescent?
400
The Southern Hemisphere is toward the sun. Season in Southern Hemisphere and in Northern Hemisphere
What is Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the Northern Hemisphere?
400
Occurs during a full moon
What is lunar eclipse?
400
Mars sized object that collided with Earth to form the Moon
What is the Impact Theory?
500
Earth's yearlong orbit
What is revolution?
500
The amount of days it takes to go through a lunar cycle
What is 29.5?
500
The reason we have the seasons
What is Earth's revolution on its axis?
500
1. Sun, Earth, Moon 2. Sun, Moon, Earth
What is 1. a lunar eclipse, 2. solar eclipse?
500
Spacecraft that was first sent to the Moon to prepare this spacecraft to land people to on the Moon
What is the Surveyor and Apollo?
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