Moon Phase
Moon Phases are caused by the ________________?
What is revolution/orbit of the Moon around Earth?
This is the primary source of energy for Earth's climate system?
What is the sun?
Earth's tilt is approximately at this degree.
What is 23.4 degrees?
True or False: The Moon revolves around the Earth.
What is True?
The earth spins in this direction.
What is west to east?
What is the word for when the Moon's light is gradually getting smaller?
What is Waning?
The Earth takes 365 rotations around the sun to complete one revolution, which we call a ___________.
What is a year?
This term describes the moment when the Sun is directly above the equator, producing nearly equal day and night
What is an equinox?
What natural event occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are perfectly aligned?
What is a lunar eclipse?
This season occurs in the Northern Hemisphere when the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun.
What is summer?
Does the Moon get smaller or larger after a Full Moon?
What is smaller?
What phenomenon happens when the Moon lines up between the Sun and Earth, causing sunlight to be blocked from reaching Earth?
What is a Solar Eclipse?
If you were outside during a total solar eclipse, what would you experience?
What is the day would suddenly become night?
During a solar eclipse, the Moon casts this on Earth, leading to a partial eclipse rather than total darkness.
What is a penumbra?
What is one force that keeps Earth in orbit around the Sun?
What is gravity?
What is the Moon Phase called that has a shadow on the left side and illuminated on the right side?
What is a First Quarter Moon Phase?
How long does it take Earth to make one revolution around the Sun?
What is 365 days or 1 year?
Why don’t we have a lunar eclipse every month?
What is the Moon’s orbit is tilted?
In the Moon's waxing phase light is on the _________ and in the Moon's waning phase light is on the __________.
What is right, left.
This reason is why the moon appears to change its shape from our perspective on Earth.
What is its reflecting light from the sun in different ways?
What is the Moon phase called when the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun?
What is a New Moon?
This layer of the Sun that is visible from Earth during normal (non-eclipse) conditions.
What is photosphere?
This term describes the Moon when the lit portion is getting bigger, while this term describes the Moon when the lit portion is getting smaller.
What is Waxing and Waning?
Why do we always see the same side of the moon from the Earth?
What is because its period of rotation equals its period of revolution?
This model describes the Earth is the immovable center and all planets orbit it.
What is a geocentric model?