Movement in Space
What is Earth's natural satellite?
The moon
True or False
Waxing means to shrink or decrease
False
What are two ways Earth moves?
Rotation and Revolution
What is a tide?
the rise and fall of ocean water
Why were constellations useful to people
Navigation
What is the moon phase after a full moon
Waning Gibbiuous
True or false
During the solstice, day and night are each about 12 hours long everywhere.
False
Along with the moon what else affects the ocean’s tides
The sun
What is in the center in the heliocentric model of the universe?
The sun
Why does the moon have phases
The phase of the moon you see depends on how much of the sunlit side of the moon face Earth
What causes the pattern of day and night?
How often do spring and neap tides occur?
Twice a month
What causes the stars to appear to move across the night sky?
Earth’s rotation around the sun
What type of eclipse is it experiencing when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in that order. The moon also appears res
Lunar
When the southern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun it is experiencing
Winter
What type of tides would you see during a first quarter moon?
Neap Tides
the imaginary line that passes through a planet's center it is
axis
What is the side of the moon we do not see
The far side
Why does the area around the equator stay the same temperature all year?
The equator always receives direct sunlight.
During what two moon phases do we have the highest high tide and the lowest low tide
New Moon and Full Moon