Seasons
What causes Earth's seasons?
The tilt of Earth's axis as Earth travels around the sun.
New Moon
When the moon's shadow hits Earth or Earth's shadow hits the moon, an eclipse occurs.
What causes an eclipse?
The changing positions of the Earth, moon, and sun
What are the two types of tides?
Spring and Neap
The force that pulls a pear to the ground also pulls the moon toward Earth, keeping it in orbit. What is this force called?
When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun, what season does the Northern Hemisphere experience?
Summer
About how long does it take for the moon to complete all of its eight phases?
One
What type of eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, blocking sunlight from Earth?
Solar Eclipse
What causes tides?
The moon’s gravitational pull on Earth
A lunar eclipse only occurs when the moon is in which phase?
Full Moon
When the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, what season does the Northern Hemisphere experience?
Winter
Which of the moon phases include a GROWING portion of reflected sunlight
Waxing Phases
What type of eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon?
Lunar Eclipse
This type of tide occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth are aligned in a straight path...
Spring Tide
Which phases of the moon appear to have less and less reflected sunlight; the shadow portions are increasing?
Waning Phases
The sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator twice each year. Each of these days when the sun is farthest north or south of the equator (longest day and/or shortest day) is known as a/an...
Solstice
Which moon phase immediately occurs after the Full Moon?
Waning Gibbous
The darkest part of an eclipse's shadow is known as the...
Umbra
This type of tide occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth are perpendicular to each other, forming right angles...
Neap Tide
What is the difference between Rotation and Revolution
Rotation is when the Earth spins on its axis
Revolution is when the Earth travels around the sun
When neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun AND the days and nights on Earth are of equal length, it is known as a/an...
Equinox
What is the order of the moon phases, beginning and ending with a New Moon
New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon
The shadow created during an eclipse has two parts. The larger part of the shadow that is not the darkest part is known as the...
Penumbra
What angle of the sun, Earth, and moon do neap tides form?
Right Angles
What is the order of the planets?
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune