What is 24 hours?
When the northern hemisphere is closer to the sun.
What is summer?
During this tide sea levels are below average
What is low tide?
The object being blocked during a solar eclipse
What is the Sun?
The reason the moon appears to light up.
What is caused by the reflecting the sun's light?
The path Earth follows on its revolution.
What is an orbit?
This causes the seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
The amount of low tides in one day.
What is 2?
What is an umbra?
The phases when the moon is "growing." (on the right side)
What are the waxing phases?
This takes 365 days to complete
What is a revolution?
The season after summer.
What is fall?
This tide occurs in a particular location on Earth in a tidal bulge.
What is high tide?
Occurs during a full moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The phases when 3/4 of the side of the moon facing Earth is lit up.
The Earth spins on this imaginary line
What is an axis?
The day of the year that sun is directly over the equator at 12pm in the spring.
What is the spring equinox?
This tide causes significant tides (very high or very low)
What is a spring tide?
The reason lunar eclipses are more common than solar.
What is the umbra is smaller during a solar eclipse
The amount of time it takes for the moon to get through all 8 phases (1 revolution)
What is about a month?
The two halves on Earth divided by the equator
What are hemispheres?
What is Winter solstice.
This tide is created when the Earth, Moon and Sun are at a 90 degree angle.
What is a neap tide
The reason we don't see eclipses every month.
What is the Moon's orbit is titled?
The amount of time between a full moon and new moon.
What is about 2 weeks?