What is the moon called when a small portion of the left side is lit up?
What is a waning crescent?
100
Tides that have the smallest daily tidal range
What is a neap tide?
100
About how much later does the moon set each day
What is 50 minutes?
100
Where is the Earth's axis pointing when North America is experiencing summer?
What is towards the sun?
100
What is the lighter part of a shadow called in a solar eclipse?
What is a penumbra?
200
What order is moon suns and earth during a lunar eclipse?
What is sun, Earth, moon?
200
Tides that have the largest daily tidal range
What is spring tide?
200
What is the arrangement between moon sun and earth during a spring tide
What is sun, moon, and earth?
200
True or False: The seasons are affected by the moon.
What is FALSE.
200
Name the phases of the moon in order starting with new moon.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent?
300
What does a last quarter moon look like?
Half lit up on the left.
300
Daily changes in water and ocean levels
What are tides?
300
What is the arrangement of sun moon earth for s neap tide
Sun earth moon in a right angle.
300
What time of year does Brazil have winter?
What is March.
300
What phase is the moon in during a solar eclipse?
What is a new moon?
400
What is the term for the moon in relationship with earth?
What is tidally locked?
400
When tide is above the average sea level
What is high tide?
400
What tide occurs during a solar eclipse?
What is a spring tide?
400
Which months have the two solstices?
What is June and December.
400
Why are there two neap tides every year but only one spring tide?
The sun, moon, and Earth only align in a straight line like sun, Earth, moon once a year but neap tides happen when they form a right angle, which can happen twice.
500
What is the term for the moon when it has a complete lunar eclipse?
What is a blood moon?
500
When tides are below daily sea level
What is low tide?
500
True or False: Does the moon's gravity add to the sun's in a neap tide?
What is FALSE
500
Name the solstices and equinoxes in order starting with March.
What is March Equinox, June Solstice, September Equinox, December Solstice.