Earth
Moon Phases
Eclipses & Tides
Gravity & EM Spectrum
Miscellaneous
100
A compass points towards this pole.
What is the magnetic north?
100
The approximate amount of time between moon phases.
What is approximately 3.5 days?
100
The Moon Phases that cause Spring Tides.
What are New and Full moons?
100
The radiation with the longest wavelength.
What is Radio Waves?
100
Draw a diagram of a full moon phase.
200
The cause of a year on Earth.
What is Earth's Revolution around the Sun?
200
The reason the Moon can be seen from Earth.
What is the Moon reflects sunlight?
200
The moon phase that is occurring during a total lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
200
The type of radiation with a wavelength that is shorter than infrared and longer than ultraviolet.
What is visible light?
200
The amount of days it takes the Moon to complete one cycle of phases.
What is approximately 29.5 days?
300
The direction in which the Earth rotates and how you can tell.
What is from West to East because the Sun rises in the East?
300
Draw the phase that would come after a third quarter phase.
What is a waning crescent?
300
The phases of the moon that create the lowest tidal range.
What is First and Third quarter moon phases?
300
The type of radiation that has a higher frequency than visible light and a lower frequency than x-rays.
What is Ultraviolet?
300
The season that occurs in the northern hemisphere when the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun.
What is winter?
400
Seasons are caused by this.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
400
Draw a first quarter moon phase.
400
Draw a solar eclipse. Label the moon phase this occurs during and label the earth, sun, and moon.
What is the new moon phase?
400
Describe the two factors that have an impact on gravity and how they affect gravity.
What is MASS, the more massive the object the greater its gravity, and DISTANCE, the closer two objects are the stronger the gravity between them?
400
Describe how the Earth, Sun, and Moon are positioned relative to one another during a New Moon and why this causes us to see what we see.
What is the Moon is between the Sun and Earth so we only see the dark side of the Moon because the lighted side is facing away from Earth?
500
The rotation of Earth causes this.
What is night and day?
500
The Moon Phase you will be in after 11 days if you are currently seeing a waning gibbous.
What is the New Moon?
500
Describe why more people can see a lunar eclipse than a solar eclipse.
What is because the Earth's shadow is larger so the entire Moon fits in the umbra; only people in the Moon's umbra can see a total eclipse during a solar eclipse (moon has a smaller shadow)?
500
Describe how frequency and wavelength are related to one another.
What is as frequency increases, wavelength decreases? (or vice versa)
500
Describe the reason why the same side of the moon always faces the Earth.
What is because the Moon's period of rotation is the same as its period of revolution?