Moon
The moon is Earths only natural satellite
What is the moon?
When one celestial body casts a shadow on another in space.
When does an Eclipse occur?
The Sun, the eight planets and several types of small bodies.
What does the Solar System consist of?
dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets
Other than the sun and the planets, what are some other objects?
Changes in the positions of the moon
What is meant by "phases of the moon"?
When the moon directly blocks the Sun’s light and casts a shadow on Earth.
When does a Solar Eclipse occur?
A giant gas and dust cloud
What was the solar nebula?
like a planet, a dwarf planet is spherical and orbits around the Sun.
What is a dwarf planet?
Gravity caused the debris from Theia to coalesce and form the moon.
What formed the moon?
The Umbra is the smaller, darkest part of the moon’s shadow where the Sun’s light is completely blocked.
What is the Umbra?
Gravity pulled most of the gas into the center, where it became hot and dense enough to form the sun.
How did the sun form?
Small rocky bodies that vary in diameter and have pitted, irregular surfaces.
What are asteroids?
The moon moves in rotation on its axis and Revolution around Earth.
What ways does the moon move?
Penumbra is the larger, lighter part of the moon’s shadow where the Sun is partially blocked.
What is the Penumbra?
The sun is a star and is the largest object in the solar system.
What is the sun?
Small fragment of an asteroid.
What are meteoroids.
Changes in the positions of the Moon, Earth, and Sun.
What are moon phases caused by?
When the Earth blocks the Sun’s light and casts a shadow on the moon.
When does a Lunar Eclipse occur?
Terrestrial planets
What are the 4 inner planets called?
loose collections of ice, dust and rocks that orbit the Sun in eccentric paths.
What are comets?