Rotation & Revolution
This motion causes day and night on Earth.
What is rotation
The moon phase when the Moon is not visible from Earth.
What is new moon?
This eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Earth’s seasons are caused by this feature of Earth.
What is Earth’s tilt?
These tides occur when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are lined up.
What are spring tides?
This motion is the path Earth takes as it travels around the Sun.
What is revolution?
The moon phase when the entire face of the Moon is visible.
What is the full moon?
This eclipse happens when Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This season occurs when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun the most.
What is summer?
These tides occur when the Sun and Moon pull on Earth at right angles.
What are neap tides?
Earth completes one full rotation in about this amount of time.
What is 24 hours (one day)?
This word describes when the lit portion of the Moon is increasing.
What is waxing?
The darkest part of a shadow during an eclipse.
What is the umbra?
This occurs when day and night are about equal in length.
What is an equinox?
Spring tides have tides that are higher and lower than this type of tide.
What are neap tides?
Earth completes one full revolution in about this amount of time.
What is 365 days (one year)?
This moon phase looks like a thin curved sliver.
What is a crescent moon?
The lighter, outer part of a shadow during an eclipse.
What is the penumbra?
The longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Which two celestial objects mainly affect Earth’s tides
What are the Moon and the Sun?
This imaginary line runs through Earth and is the line Earth rotates around.
What is Earth’s axis?
This term describes moon phases where more than half of the Moon is visible, but not full.
What is gibbous?
Why eclipses do not happen every month.
What is because the Moon’s orbit is tilted compared to Earth’s orbit?
Why seasons are NOT caused by Earth’s distance from the Sun.
What is because Earth’s tilt changes the angle and intensity of sunlight, not distance?
The Moon affects tides more than the Sun because it is closer to Earth despite having less ___.
What is mass?