The Moon
The phase that occurs when the moon is located between the Earth and sun.
What is the new moon?
It takes 365 days for the Earth to complete one
What is a revolution?
The longest day of the year
What is the summer solstice?
This phase occurs after a full moon
What is the waning gibbous?
The day(s) when both hemispheres receive equivalent amount of sunlight
What is the equinox?
The second full moon in the same month
What is a blue moon?
The reason we see phases of the moon
What is the position of the moon relative to the Earth and sun?
The shape of Earth's orbit
What is an ellipse?
The cause of seasons
What is Earth's tilt?
The number of planets in our solar system
8 planets
What is the waxing phase?
The Earth rotates on this...
What is an axis?
These factors keep the Earth in orbit around the sun.
What are gravity and inertia?
Season when a hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun
What is Summer?
True of False: Pluto is a planet
What is false?
The length of a lunar cycle
23 degrees measures the angle of...
What is Earth's tilt (or tilted axis)?
These factors affect the strength of gravitational force between objects.
What are mass and distance?
What is June?
The process in which the Sun make its own heat and light
nuclear fusion