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Seasons
Lunar Phases
Tides
Eclipses
Vocabulary
100
The main reason why we have seasons on Earth
What is Earth's tilt?
100
This is about how long a complete lunar cycles takes to make it through all 8 phases.
What is about a month or 28.5 days?
100
This is the rise and fall of the water level in the oceans and larger bodies of water.
What is a tide?
100
This is when the moon moves in between the Earth and sun, casting a shadow on Earth.
What is solar eclipse
100
This is what causes us to have day and night on Earth.
What is Earth's rotation on axis?
200
This is the season when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun.
What is summer
200
This is when the moon is not visible from Earth.
What is a New Moon?
200
This is why we have tides on Earth.
What is gravitational pull of the moon and the Sun?
200
This is when the moon is blocked by Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
This is what causes us to have years on Earth.
What is revolution around sun?
300
This is the season when the days are much shorter and colder in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is winter?
300
This is when the lit portion of the moon appears to be "shrinking".
What is waning?
300
This is the type of tide we will have when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are lined in a straight line.
What is a spring tide?
300
This is the lunar phase seen from Earth during a Solar eclipse.
What is a New moon?
300
This is when daylight hours are equal to nighttime hours on Earth.
What is an equinox?
400
If the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing spring, this is the season that the US will be having.
What is Fall or Autumn?
400
This is the lunar phase that comes directly after 1st quarter.
What is waxing gibbous?
400
The type of tide that will occur when the Sun, Moon, and Earth form a triangle in space during the 1st and last quarter moon phases.
What is a neap tide?
400
This is the type of lunar phase seen during a lunar eclipse.
What is a full moon?
400
These are the TWO months we experience solstices on Earth.
What are June and December?
500
If the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun. this is the season that the Northern Hemisphere will be having.
What is winter.
500
This is why the moon is visible from Earth at night.
What is sun's light is reflected on moon's surface?
500
These are the TWO lunar phases that take place for a spring tide.
What are new moon and full moon?
500
These are the TWO events that could happen at the same time as the spring tides during the month if the Earth, moon, and Sun line up just right.
What are solar and lunar eclipse?
500
This is the month when the sun is in the sky the longest.
What is June?