Seasons
What are the four main seasons that many places on Earth experience?
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
What are tides?
The regular rise and fall of sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun.
What is a heavenly body?
a planet, star, or other celestial body.
What is research?
Investigating a topic
What are the names given to the longest and shortest day of the year?
Summer and winter solstice
When it is summer in China, what season is Australia in?
Winter
What causes high tide and low tide?
The Moon’s gravity pulls water on Earth toward it, creating a high tide. The opposite side also bulges out, creating another high tide, with low tides in between.
Who discovered the geocentric model?
Ptolemy
What are the 3 types of presentations you can choose from for your assessment?
PowerPoint, Poster, Podcast script
Name 3 types of lunar eclipses
Total, Partial, Penumbral
How would the seasons change if the Earth’s axis were not tilted? And why?
We would only experience one season.
How many high tides and low tides usually occur in one day, and why?
There are usually two high tides and two low tides each day because Earth rotates through the bulges of water caused by the Moon’s gravity.
What did Copernicus discover?
Heliocentric model
Paraphrase this sentence: I love to eat chocolate.
Chocolate is very enjoyable to eat.
Name 3 types of solar eclipses.
Total, Partial, Annular
What causes the different seasons on Earth?
The tilt of Earth’s axis causes different parts of the Earth to receive more or less sunlight during the year.
Draw a diagram representing a neap tide on the board.
Diagram.
What did Newton discover?
Gravity was a force keeping the planets in orbit.
What key words would you type into Google for this research question: What causes a lunar eclipse?
causes, lunar eclipse, Sun, position, orbit
Name all 8 phases of the moon.
Full moon, New moon, First quarter, Last quarter, Waning gibbous, Waxing gibbous, Waning crescent, Waxing crescent
Draw a diagram representing the position of the Earth relative to the Sun when Australia is in winter.
Diagram
Why are tides stronger (higher high tides and lower low tides) during a full moon or new moon?
During full and new moons, the Moon and the Sun line up with Earth, so their gravitational pulls combine to make spring tides.
Name all 5 scientists who contributed to planetary motion theories in order.
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton
What is the referencing style we are using for our assignment?
Name of author. (Date). Title. Website link or name of textbook.
Explain how the position of the Sun, Earth, and Moon causes a new moon and a full moon, and why we don’t have an eclipse every month.
A new moon happens when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun; a full moon when Earth is between the Sun and Moon. Eclipses don’t happen every month because the Moon’s orbit is tilted, so it usually passes above or below the Sun.