Vocabulary
The border between light and dark on the moon.
Terminator
A moon phase that looks like a full circle from earth
Full moon
It illuminates the moon because the moon does not make it's own light.
What is the sun?
What makes the Moon completely dark during a Lunar Eclipse?
The Earth covers the Moon.
why does the border between light and dark on the moon change location?
Because the Moon moves to different positions around Earth, we see different amounts of the illuminated half of the Moon. This is why we see different phases of the moon.
To shine light on a object to make it visible
illuminate
A moon phase that looks less than a
Crescent moon
The sun only illuminates the half of the moon facing it.
Why is half of the moon light and half dark?
How do lunar eclipses happen?
Lunar eclipse can only happen when the earth is in between the sun and the moon.
What determines the appearance of the Moon from Earth?
From Earth we can only see the half of the Moon that is facing us.
The size of things
Scale
A moon phase that looks like a half circle from earth.
Quarter Moon
What from the sun travels in a straight line?
The Sun''s illuminate is what makes travel in a strait line.
What determinants they appears of the moon from earth?
How long dose it take to see the full pattern of the moon phases.
It takes about one month for the moon to orbit the earth. This patter repeats with ever obit of the moon.
When the moon is completely dark
Lunar eclipse
A moon phase that looks like more than half a circle from earth
Gibbous Moon
Why do we see different phases on the moon?
We see different phases of the moon because the moon orbits around earth.
Why is there a lunar eclipse every time earth is in between the sun and the moon?
The sun earth and moon have to Aline perfectly for a lunar eclipse to appar.
What demands the appears of the moon from earth?
The sun illuminated half of the moon that is facing it and,and the other half is dark.
The shape of the illuminated part of the moon as it appears for earth.
Moon phase
A moon phase in which the moon is not visible from earth.
New Moon
What causes the pattern of the moon phases?
When the moon orbits around Earth it forms different angles and shadows from the Sun's illuminate.
How often do lunar eclipses happen?
they happen only when the sun earth and moon form a perfect line.
Why is there a patter to the position of the moon?
It's because we see different oms of the a illuminated half of the moon.