Moon Phases
The time it takes for the moon to revolve around Earth
What is about a month?
This eclipse order is SUN-MOON-EARTH
What is a solar eclipse?
This tide happens when the Earth faces the moon.
What is high tide?
This gives us day and night.
What is rotation?
It reflects light from the Sun making it visible to us
What is the moon?
This phase comes after full moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
This eclipse order is SUN-EARTH- MOON
What is a lunar eclipse?
These are higher and lower than usual tides.
What are Spring Tides?
To go around another object.
What is revolution?
The amount that the moon is always lit.
What is half?
When the moon is between the sun and the moon.
What is a new moon?
The eclipse when the new moon makes a shadow on the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
The length of time to go fom low tide to low tide OR high tide to high tide.
What is 12 hours?
The periodic rise and fall of the of the ocean water.
What are tides?
How long it takes the Earth to revolve.
What is 365.25 days?
The moon phase shape on either side of a new moon
What is a crescent?
The lighter part of an eclipses shadow.
What is penumbra?
These tides occur when it's a new or full moon.
What are spring tides?
The direction the moon revolves around Earth.
What is counter clockwise?
The Earth is tilted on it's rotational axis this much.
What is 23.5 degrees?
How long it takes to go from a full moon to a 3rd quarter moon.
What is a week?
The darkest part of an eclipse's shadow.
What is umbra?
What are neap tides?
The kind of eclipse when the celestial body is in the umbra.
What is a total eclipse?
The moon revolves and rotates at the same rate.
What is why we only see one side of the moon?