Words to Know
What is rotation?
This is the reason Earth has seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
This moon phase occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon.
What is a full moon?
This eclipse occurs when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun.
What is a lunar eclipse?
What is high tide?
The movement of one object around another object.
What is revolution?
The hemisphere that is tilted towards the sun will experience this season.
What is summer?
This moon phase occurs when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth.
What is a new moon?
This eclipse occurs when the moon is directly between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
A tide that has the highest high tides and the lowest low tides.
What is a spring tide?
What is an eclipse?
Two days per year where when neither hemisphere is titled toward or away from the sun.
What is an equinox?
Name for when you can see more than half of the moon lit up.
What is a gibbous?
A lunar eclipse occurs during this moon phase.
What is a full moon?
This tide occurs when the moon is at a right angle (90 degrees) with respect to the Earth and sun.
What is a neap tide?
Name for the different shapes of the moon caused by motions of the moon around Earth.
What are (moon) phases?
Two days per year when either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is at its strongest tilt toward the sun.
What is a solstice?
When you see the light on the right side of the moon; when the light on the moon is getting bigger and brighter.
What is waxing?
A solar eclipse occurs during this moon phase.
What is a new moon?
What is a full moon and a new moon?
This phenomenon is caused by gravitational differences in how the Earth, moon, and sun interact at different alignments.
What are tides?
This is what happens to day length when a hemisphere is tilted toward the sun.
What is there are more hours of day than night?
What are longer days?
What are shorter nights?
When you see the light on the left side of the moon; when the light on the moon is getting smaller and darker.
What is waning?
This is the reason we do not see eclipses every month.
What is because the Earth, moon, and sun are not lined up perfectly?
What is because the moon's orbit around Earth is off by about 5 degrees?
These two moon phases can result in neap tides.
What is the first (1st) quarter moon and third (3rd) quarter moon?