Waxing or Waning
This phase comes after a new moon
What is waxing
This phase occurs when the moon is almost directly between the Sun and Earth and the moon looks to have disappeared.
What is a new moon
the cause of tides
What is the moon’s gravitational pull
the action of spinning on an axis.
What is rotation
explain how we get day and night
What is earth rotating on its axis. When we rotate and face the sun we have day, when we turn away from the sun we have night
Comes last in the moon phases cycle
What is waning
The phase before Waning Crescent
What is 3rd (last) quarter
the cause of seasons
What is the Earth's tilt and its position in it's revolution
how long it takes for the moon to complete a full orbit around the Earth
What 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes
cause the moon to illuminate
What is the sun
when the earth’s shadow is covering the right side of the moon.
What is Waning
When half of the moon is lit on the right side
What is 1st quarter moon
describe the alignment of a spring tide
What is the position of the earth, sun and the moon-in a straight line
Describe revolution
What is the action of moving around another object.
This astronaut was the first man to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Draw a waxing Gibbous
What is (correct drawing here)?
phase that shows a small sliver of light.
What is a crescent
describe the position of the Earth, sun and the moon during a neap tide
What is an L shape or perpendicular shape or 90 degree angle?
24 hrs (1 day) completes what?
What is how long it take for Earth to make one complete rotation
the invisible line that divides the earth into two hemispheres?
What is the equator?
Draw the moon phase in which we only see a small sliver of the moon right after the new moon.
What is a (draw correct moon phase here)
Two weeks after a new moon, what will the phase be
What is full moon?
how it summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere
what is summer in northern hemisphere when the North Pole is tilted toward the sun and winter in the southern hemisphere when the South Pole is tilted away from the sun
365 days (one year) completes what?
What is how long it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun
Tonights moon phase
What is (check calendar for tonights moon phase)?