Days/years/seasons
Days/years/seasons 2
Earth/moon/sun
Moon Phases
Lunar Eclipses
100
What causes seasons?
Earth's tilt in relation to the sun
100
Earth's makes one full ____________ around the sun every year
What is a revolution?
100
A body the orbits a larger body
What is a satellite?
100
As the moon revolves around Earth, the portion of the moon that reflects sunlight back to Earth changes, causing the moon's appearance to change.
What are lunar phases?
100
An event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another
What is an eclipse?
200
Circular motion of an object around its axis and it spins counter clockwise
What is a rotation
200
What does Earth's tilt do?
Causes the seasons
200
Exert force that pulls objects with mass toward themselves
What is gravity?
200
Double Points!!!
Put the phases in order starting with New Moon:
New moon, waning crescent, Full moon, First quarter, waning gibbous, waxing crescent
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, full moon, waning gibbous, waning crescent
200
The darkest part of a shadow
What is an umbra?
300
When the light is hitting the Earth making an equal amount of daylight and nighttime.
What is an equinox?
300
What is the angle that Earth tilts at?
23.5 degrees
300
The moon completes one rotation for every __________ it makes around Earth.
Revolution
300
What is a gibbous?
when the near side is more than half lit but not fully lit
300
Spreading cone of lighter shadow
What is a Penumbra?
400
How often do equinoxes' happen?
2 times a year
400
Double Points!!!: What season is it in the southern hemisphere in position one?
Fall
400
What causes the moon phases?
Light from the sun reflecting off of the moon's surface
400
What phases come before and after a 1st quarter moon?
Waxing crescent and waxing gibbous
400
How do solar eclipses occur?
When the moon is directly between the sun and Earth, the shadow of the moon falls on a part of Earth
500
When the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky it is marked by the shortest and longest days of the year.
What is a Solstice?
500
The winter solstice
What is the shortest day of the year?
500
Double Points!!: Roughly 383,000 km about a hundred times the distance from New York to Los Angeles
Distance between Earth and the moon?
500
What does the waxing moon appear to do each day?
Appears to grow
500
When the moon is in Earth's umbra what eclipse is occurring?
Lunar