Moon and Earth Mysteries
This celestial body is Earth's natural satellite and goes through different phases.
What is the Moon?
This term describes Earth moving around the Sun.
What is revolution?
This season occurs when Earth's hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.
What is summer?
This cycle repeats approximately every 30 days.
What is the lunar cycle?
The Moon does not create its own light but instead does this.
What is reflect sunlight?
This phase occurs when we see the entire lit side of the Moon.
What is a full moon?
The amount of time it takes for Earth to complete one revolution.
What is 365 days or one year?
The season with the shortest daylight hours.
What is winter?
The Sun appears to rise in this direction each morning.
What is the east?
This is the only place humans have visited beyond Earth.
What is the Moon?
The Moon appears to change shape because of this process, which lasts about 30 days.
What is the lunar cycle?
Earth is tilted on this imaginary line that runs through the North and South Poles.
What is the axis?
The two seasons where daylight and nighttime hours are nearly equal.
What are spring and fall (or autumn)?
The reason the Moon and Sun seem to move across the sky each day.
What is Earth's rotation?
The Moon’s surface is covered in these bowl-shaped features from space rock impacts.
What are craters?
This phase of the Moon happens when we can see only half of the lit side.
What is a first quarter or third quarter moon?
The daily movement of Earth that causes day and night.
What is rotation?
The key reason why different parts of Earth experience different seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
The approximate time it takes for the Moon to complete all its phases.
What is one month?
The Moon’s gravitational pull is responsible for these movements of ocean water.
What are tides?
This is the reason why Earth has seasons, as it moves around the Sun.
What is Earth's tilt on its axis?
The reason why the Moon appears to change shape in the sky.
What is the reflection of sunlight as the Moon orbits Earth?
The longest day of the year, occurring in June in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
If you saw a full moon on September 28 when would you see a new moon?
About 2 weeks later (14 days) ; October 12
The first person to walk on the Moon in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?