Rotation
What is rotation of the Earth?
Spinning of the Earth on its axis.
What is revolution?
The movement of the earth around the sun.
Why do we always see the same side of the moon?
Because the moon rotates and revolves like the Earth.
What cause the tides?
gravitational pull of the moon.
What is the alignment of the sun,moon, and earth during a solar eclipse?
Sun-moon-Earth
Earth rotates counter clockwise.
What is the direction of the Earths revolution?
Counter Clockwise
What 2 things create the moon phases?
What is a spring tide?
higher high tides.
What moon phase does a solar eclipse occur during?
How long does rotation of the Earth take?
Takes 24 hours to rotate.
How long does the Earth take to revolve around the sun?
1 year or 365.25 days
How long does it take to see all the moon phases?
It takes 29.5 days to see all the moon phases.
During which moon phases to spring tides occur?
New and full moon
How long does a solar eclipse last?
2-3 minutes
What does rotation of the Earth cause?
Rotation causes day and night.
What does revolution of the Earth cause to happen?
It causes years
List the moon phases in order beginning with the new moon?
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter,waxing gibbous, full moon,waning gibbous,third quarter,waning crescent.
Lower high tides
Shadow of the sunrays.
If the Earth rotated slower what would happen?
It would take longer to become night and day.
What causes the sun to appear to rise and set?
the earth rotating around the sun rise eastward and, set westward.
Right angle(90 degress)
During which moon phases do neap tides occur?
1st and 3rd quarter
What moon phase does a lunar eclipse happen? How long does a lunar eclipse last?
Full moon, 2-3 hours