Phases
This phase of the moon means growing and less than half lit visible.
What is Waxing Crescent?
Eclipse that occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and Sun
What is a Solar eclipse?
This is the number of high tides there are each day.
What is 2?
The reason we have different seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of the axis?
The movement of one object around another.
What is Revolution?
The moon revolves around the Earth in this direction.
What is Counterclockwise?
This is the lighter part of the earth or moon's shadow.
What is the Penumbra?
Tides are mainly caused by differences in how much of the _______'s gravity pulls on different parts of the _________.
What is moon/Earth?
When Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun the northern hemisphere is in this season.
What is summer?
Spinning on an axis.
What is Rotation?
This much of the moon is always sunlit.
What is 1/2?
If the entire moon is in the umbra, we see this type of eclipse. Be specific!
What is Total Lunar eclipse?
The angle at which the Earth's axis is tilted.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This word means more that half.
What is Gibbous?
What is the tilt of the moon's orbit?
This is the amount of time it takes to go from peak high tide to peak low tide.
What is about 6 hours?
The seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are always ___________.
What is opposite?
On Tuesday the 4th we had a full moon. We will have a 3rd quarter moon on this day.
What is the 11th?
What is about 14 days or two weeks?
This is the area that you would need to be in to see a total solar eclipse.
What is the path of totality?
What makes a spring tide special is the increase we see in the _____________.
What is tidal difference/change/distance high to low?
What is December 21st?
This colorful term describes two full moons in the same month.
What is blue?