Earth's Rotation
Earth rotates on this invisible line.
Axis
Earth revolves around this.
The Sun
The phase of the moon when the moon is the brightest
Full Moon
When the moon blocks the light from the sun
solar eclipse
The Earth takes this long to rotate once.
24 hours
It takes the Earth this long to revolve
365 days (1 year)
The phase of the moon where the moon appears the smallest, but is still visible.
Crescent
When only some of the sun is blocked by the moon we call it this type of solar eclipse.
Partial eclipse
Earth's rotation causes this.
Day and night
Earth's revolution causes these.
The Seasons
The moon phases that starts off the month
New Moon
When the entire Sun in blocked by the moon, we call it this type of Solar eclipse.
Total Solar Eclipse
This is what keeps us standing on the Earth, and not falling off.
Gravity
True
This word means "growing"
waxing
The 'bubble' around the Earth that the moon goes in and out of. It needs to be 'in' it for an eclipse to happen.
Orbital plane
True or False-Earth is the only celestial object that rotates on an axis.
False
As the Earth revolves around the Sun, this celestial object revolves around the Earth.
The moon
This word means "shrinking"
waning
Describe the position of the Sun, Earth Moon during a Lunar Eclipse.
Sun - Earth - Moon