Define phases
What are the different shapes of the moon you see from Earth?
When the moon is between the Sun and the Earth, lit side facing the Sun?
What is New Moon?
Name the gas planets of the solar system
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Reflection from the sun
Where does the moon get its light?
Identify this phase.
What is waxing gibbous?
When the moon is getting bigger in the sky?
What is waxing?
(Wax on, wax off)
The phase when the sun is positioned behind the Earth and shining fully on the Moon
What is the full moon?
Name 2 differences between the Sun and the Earth's physical make up.
What is Earth has an atmosphere and is made up of solid rock and liquid water?
What is 8?
Identify this phase.
What is full moon?
The total or partial blocking of one object in space by another.
What is an eclipse?
Right half of the Moon appears lighted and the left side of the Moon appears dark.
What is first quarter?
What is Moon, Earth, Sun?
Time from new moon to next new moon
29.5 days
Identify this phase.
What is 3rd quarter?
When the moon is getting smaller
What is waning?
Gibbous
What is when the moon is more than half full?
2 Factors that cause seasonal changes on Earth
What are Earth's tilted axis and orbit around the Sun?
True or false: The moon's reflected light grow from Right to Left.
What is true?
Identify this phase.
What is waxing crescent?
Difference between equinox and solstice
What is when both hemispheres have equal amount of daylight versus when one has maximum daylight and the other hemisphere has minimum daylight?
Crescent
What is when the moon less than half illuminated?
The gravitational attraction of the Moon causes which effect on Earth?
What are ocean tides?
The number of days that one phase of the moon lasts
What is 3 days?
Identify this phase.
What is waning crescent?