Shadows
The season that produces the longest shadows.
What is Winter?
These 2 seasons have an equinox.
What are Spring and Fall?
The phase of the moon where someone on Earth sees the whole face of the moon lit up.
What is Full Moon?
When the moon casts its shadow on the Earth we see a ________ eclipse.
What is Solar?
The Earth spins on its______.
What is axix?
The season that produces the shortest shadows.
What is Summer?
If Canada is in Winter, then the USA is in this season.
What is Winter?
The first half moon we see after a new moon is called the ____ ______ moon.
What is First Quarter?
When the Earth blocks the sun from hitting the moon it is a _______ eclipse.
What is Lunar?
The Earth rotates in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
Spring and Fall produce shadows that are ______ than Summers and ________ than winters.
What is Longer and Shorter (must be in that order).
If Mexico is in Summer, than China is in this season.
What is Summer?
When the moon is in the process of gaining illumination we call our cresent and gibbous moon this.
What is Waxing?
This moon phase happens when we see a solar eclipse.
What is New Moon?
It takes this many days for the Earth to orbit the sun. Be precise.
What is 365 1/4 days?
The longest shadows are produced at what times of the day?
What are sunrise and sunset?
If the neither the northern hemisphere of the southern hemisphere are tilted toward or away from the sun, then we are most likely in what 2 seasons?
What is Spring or Fall?
The reason why we call the last quarter moon, a last quarter moon is.....
What is because the moon is in the last quarter of its orbit.
This moon phase happens when we see a Lunar eclipse.
What is Full Moon?
The north pole always points to this.
What is the North Star or Polaris?
What causes shadows to be long?
What is indirect sunlight (the sun's rays hit us at an angle instead of straight down on us).
The 2 things responsible for Earth having its seasons are....
What are the tilt and its orbit?
The reason we see different moon phases each day/night throughout a month is......
What is because the moon orbits the Earth and we see different amounts of light reflecting off the moon as it changes its position in the sky.
The reason we do not have a solar and lunar eclipse each month is....
What is because the moon does not orbit the Earth on the same plane the Earth and Sun are on.
When the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, where on Earth does the sun's rays hit most directly? Be specific.
What is the Tropic of Cancer.