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Moon Phases
Science Fair
Tides
Features on the Moon
Eclipses
100
At night when you are sleeping there is 'light' streaming through your window. This star is reflecting off the moon.
What is The Sun?
100
The question you are trying to answer by doing your experiment.
What is an initial question?
100
This is the tide that makes the water level go up.
What is high tide?
100
These dark, flat areas are hardened rock formed from huge lava flows.
What are Maria?
100
This is the kind of eclipse that occurs when the moon passes between the earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
The name for the different shapes of the moon you see from the Earth.
What are Phases?
200
Some of these change when you are doing an experiment, and some of them stay the same.
What is a variable?
200
This is the tide that makes the water level go down.
What is low tide?
200
This is a word that describes mountains and the light colored features on the moon.
What is Highlands?
200
This type of eclipse occurs at full moon, when the earth is between the moon and the sun.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
The Moon is tilted this angle.
What is 5 degrees?
300
This is the educated guess you make about what will happen in your experiment, and why it will happen.
What is a Hypothesis?
300
This causes the tide to go high and low every day.
What is the gravity of the moon?
300
These are large round pits in the moon, and they are darker in color.
What is a Crater?
300
During a solar eclipse, this is the very darkest part of the moon's shadow.
What is the umbra?
400
1.) The Moon revolves around the Earth. 2.) The Moon rotates once on its own axis.
What are the two ways the moon moves through space?
400
This is the list of all of the things you will need to buy for your experiment.
What is a Materials List?
400
This is the amount of time it takes for the tide to rise and then fall again.
What is 12.5 hours (approximately)?
400
The impacts of these cause craters on the moon.
What is a Meteoroid?
400
During a solar eclipse, people standing in this shadow can only see a partial eclipse.
What is the penumbra?
500
The changing relative position of the moon, Earth, and sun cause these.
What are the phases of the moon?
500
This is the list of all of the steps you will take in your experiment.
What is a Procedure?
500
These are the two special tides that are affected by the combined gravity of the Earth and the sun.
What are Spring Tide and Neap Tide?
500
In 2009, scientists found a thin layer of this in the moon's soil.
What is water?
500
This is the name for the ring of light you see behind the moon in a solar eclipse.
What is the corona?