Vocab
The path an object makes as it moves around another object
What is orbit?
Why does the Earth orbit the Sun?
What is gravity?
What are craters?
What causes tides?
What is the Moon's gravity?
The color the moon turns during a total lunar eclipse.
What is redish?
A spinning motion of an object
What is rotation?
Earth's rotation axis __________ faces the same direction in space.
What is always?
Bright streaks around craters are called?
What are rays?
The Sun affects tides _________ as much as the Moon does.
What is half?
What order are the Earth, Sun, and Moon during a solar eclipse?
What is Earth, Moon, Sun or Sun, Moon, Earth?
A day when Earth's rotation axis is most towards or away from the Sun
What is a solstice?
What causes seasons?
What is Earth's tilt?
The older, taller, and lighter colored areas of the Moon
What are highlands?
When there are higher high tides and lower low tides.
What are spring tides?
The darker part of the shadow where total eclipses occur.
What is the umbra?
When more of the Moon is lit each night
What is waxing phases of the Moon?
The poles are colder because
What is light is spread out there.
What is maria?
When the Sun and Moon are at a right angle in space this tide occurs.
What is a neap tide?
When the Earth's axis is not towards or away from the Sun.
What is an equinox?
When the Moon's shadow appears on Earth
What is a solar eclipse?
There are not eclipses every month because
What is the Moon's orbit is tilted?
How the Moon formed
What is the giant impact hypothesis?
High tides are located at ______________
What are tidal bulges?
The phase the Moon is in during a total solar eclipse.