Seasons
Causes the different seasons on Earth
What is the tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun?
Why we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth
What is the Moon rotates at the same rate it revolves around Earth?
How many high tides does most coastal area experience each day?
What is 2?
The phase of the Moon that solar eclipses occur
What is the New Moon?
Causes day and night on Earth?
What is Earth rotating on its axis
If the Northern Hemisphere is having winter, what season is the Southern Hemisphere experiencing?
What is Summer?
Why the Moon appears to change shape throughout the month?
What is the moon is moving and reflecting different amounts of sunlight?
How would life on Earth be different if the Moon didn’t exist?
What is no tides, no stabilizing of Earth’s tilt, and shorter days over time?
The phase of the Moon that lunar eclipses occur
The amount of time that it takes Earth to make a complete rotation.
What is 24 hours
The Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, it is experiencing this season
What is Summer?
When the Moon appears to grow larger each night
What is Waxing?
The force that causes ocean tides on Earth
What is gravity from the moon and sun?
The type of eclipse that happens when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun
What is Solar Eclipse?
The amount of time that it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
What is 1 year?
How would Earth’s seasons change if it had no tilt?
What is it would have no seasons, temperatures would stay the same all year?
Causes the different phases of the Moon
What is the moon reflecting sunlight as it orbits Earth?
The alignment of the Sun, Moon and Earth for a spring tide to occur.
During a lunar eclipse, describe what happens to Earths shadow
What is falls on the Moon?
Shape of the path the the Earth orbits the Sun.
What is ellipitical?
Why is it summer in the Northern Hemisphere when it’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is when one hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, the other is tilted away.
During which phase is the entire face of the Moon visible from Earth?
What is full moon?
When Earth, Moon, and Sun are in a straight line, tides are higher than normal because —
What is the gravitational pull of both the Moon and Sun combine?
Why does a solar eclipse not happen every month even though there is a New Moon each month?
What is the tilt of the moon?
The amount of days it takes the Moon to revolve around the Earth
What is 27.3 days?