rotation/revolution
tides
vocabulary
100

movement of earth around the axis

what is rotation

100

what are the different tides

 what is spring and neap tides

100

what does antumbra mean

what is the part of the moon's shadow that extends beyond the umbra and where the sun appears larger than the moon

200

movement of earth around the sun

what is revolution

200

what does umbra mean

what is the inner, darkest part of the moon's shadow, where the sun is completely blocked by the moon

300

give one example of rotation

what is the earth on its axis

300

what does penumbra mean

what is the lighter, outer part of the shadow, where the sun is only partially blocked by the moon

400

what causes rotation explain

what is the earth rotation causes night and day because of the rotation causes locations on earth to be rotating toward the sun and away form the sun

400

explain an annular eclipse

what is a type of solar eclipse in which the moon is too far from earth to cover the sun completely, sun the outer edge of the sun is visible as a ring

500

what does revolution mean

what sudden,radical, or complete change

500

what is a neap tide explain

lower-than-normal high tide that occurs when the first or third quarter moon, Earth, and the sun are at right angels to each other and that gravitational force of the sun partially offsets the gravitational force of the moon