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Vocabulary
moon phases
phases,eclipes and tides
Gravity
vocabulary2
100
what is a axis
an imaginary line?
100
The sunlit side faces away from earth
new moon?
100
The changing relavite positions of the moon, earth and sun
what cause the phases of the moon?
100
The balance between the inerited of the moon and the gravitational pull keep the moon in orbit around the earth.
What keeps the moon in orbit around the earth?
100
the amount of matter in an object
mass?
200
the movement of one object around another
What is a revolution?
200
what is a waxing cresent
The portion of the moon you can see is waxing or growing into a cresent shape?
200
eight phases
What is the number of phases does the moon have?
200
THis is beacuse earth as a larger mass, threfore it has stronger gravity
why does earth have more gravity than moon?
200
the force of gravity on an object
What is weight?
300
the study of moon, stars and other object in space
astonomy?
300
u can see half of the moon
first quarter?
300
twenty-nine days
about how many days does it take for the moon to go throught all phases?
300
All laws of physics would change, and life as we know it would end.
what would happen if earth lost its gravity.
300
a push or pull
force?
400
the spinning of earth axis
What is rotation?
400
the moon contiues to wax, the visible shape of the moon is callled gibbous
What is a waxing gibbous?
400
what is the difference between waning and waxing
waning is growing smaller and waxing is growing larger
400
faces earth
What does the near side of the moon face.
400
inertia
an object to resist a change in motion
500
the path of an object in space
orbit?
500
the entire sunlit side faces the earth
full moon?
500
.What cause the phases and eclipses
phases are cause by moon moving in orbit around the earth,being lit by the sun from different angles the eclipes are cause by the moon in orbit passing either between the earth and the sun or through the earth's shadow
500
faces away from earth
What does the far side of the moon face?
500
the moon cast a shadow the larger part id the penumbra
penumbra?