Vocabulary
the motion of one object around another
What is Revolution?
The sun is ____________ km away from the earth.
what is 150 million km?
The name of the idea for how the moon formed.
What is the giant impact hypothesis?
Total Eclipses occur in the moon's ___________
What is the umbra?
the main cause of tides
what is the moon's gravity?
The large, dark, flat areas of the Moon
What is the Maria?
The pull of gravity depends on what 2 things?
What is the mass and distance?
How long ago did most of the craters on the moon form?
What is over 3.5 billion years ago?
the location where you can see a lunar eclipse.
What is anywhere facing the moon?
High tide will change to low tide in _________________ amount of time
what is 6 hours?
when earth’s rotation axis is leaning along earth’s orbit, neither toward or away.
What is an equinox?
The earth rotates in this direction. BONUS 100 POINTS if you can ALSO answer in cardinal directions (N,S,E,W)
What is counterclockwise? BONUS: What is West to East?
The phase of the moon that occurs after a full moon phase.
What is the third or last quarter phase?
what is it called when the moon's umbra follows a line on earth's surface during a solar eclipse?
what is the path of totality?
North Carolina experiences a high tide at 5 pm. When will North Carolina experience another high tide?
What is 5 am? or 12 hours later
when the moon moves into earth’s shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Earth is closest to the sun during this month.
What is January?
the reason that the moon has phases
What is the sun's reflection/light reflecting?
the phase of the moon during a lunar eclipse
What is a full moon phase?
A single beach would have ____ high tides and _____ low tides a day.
What is 2 & 2?
the lighter part of a shadow where light is partially blocked.
what is the penumbra?
The primary reason for our seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth?
the reason(s) we see only one side of the moon
What is the same revolution and rotation speed?
The reason solar and lunar eclipses don't happen every month
what is the perfect alignment of the earth, moon, sun/ the tilt lined up?
Draw the earth, moon, and sun for spring tides AND for neap tides!
Ms. Fiser will draw :)