Seasons
Patterns of temperature changes and other weather trends over the course of a year
What are seasons?
The light part of the moon is gradually getting larger
What is waxing?
The spinning motion of Earth.
What is rotation?
The number of high tides each day.
What is 2?
Sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemisphere
What is an equinox?
The light part of the moon is graudally getting smaller.
What is waning?
This is the motion of one object moving around another.
What is revolution?
This causes tides on Earth.
What is the moon's gravity?
At this, the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and a minimum in the other hemisphere.
What is a solstice?
The moon is positioned between the sun and the Earth. There appears to be no moon.
What is a new moon?
Earth rotates around this imaginary line running through its center.
What is an axis of rotation?
This occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The Northern hemisphere begins winter during this and the Southern hemisphere begins summer.
What is the December Solstice?
Less than half the moon is fully lit. The portion we see is growing.
What is waxing crescent?
It takes this long for Earth to orbit around the sun.
What is one year?
This is the darkest part of Earth's shadow.
What is an umbra?
The north pole is pointing toward the sun and the south pole is pointing away from the sun.
What is the June Solstice?
One half of the moon is lit. It is a quarter of the way around Earth.
What is first quarter moon?
It takes this long for the Earth to rotate once on its axis.
What is a day?
This occurs when a shadow makes the sun or the moon seem to grow dark.
What is an eclipse?