Seasons
When the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, it is ______ there.
What is summer?
It takes the moon _______ days to revolve around the Earth.
What is 27.3 days?
The sun is blocked because the Earth has entered the moons shadow.
What is a solar eclipse?
To overshadow, block, or cover up.
"The planet ________ its moon, casting an eerie red light."
What is eclipse?
What causes day and night?
What is the Earth's rotation?
When the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, it is ______ there.
What is winter?
It takes the Moon _______ days to go from one New Moon to the next New Moon.
Daily Double if you tell me WHY.
What is 29.5 days?
Why: This is because the Earth and moon travel around the sun while the moon revolves around Earth. In order to be back in line with the sun, the Moon has to travel a little extra distance and that takes more time.
The moon is blocked because it has entered Earth's shadow.
What is a lunar eclipse?
When one object moves around another.
"The Earth ____________ around the Sun."
What is revolution or revolve.
What two forces hold things in orbit?
What are gravity and inertia?
When the equator gets the most direct sunlight, it could be _________ or ___________.
What is Spring or Fall?
The phase when the Moon is between the sun and the Earth.
What is New Moon?
Solar eclipses happen during the ________ moon phase.
What is new moon?
The darkest day of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
What causes the lunar phases?
Lunar phases are caused by the moon's tilted orbital plane as it revolves around the Earth.
The two days each year where there is an equal amount of daylight and darkness.
What are the fall and spring equinoxes.
After a new moon, the moon __________ .
What is waxes?
Lunar eclipses happen during the _______ moon phase.
What is full moon?
When an object spins on its axis.
"The Earth __________ on its axis every day."
What is rotation or rotates?
The Moon's rotation and revolution take the same amount of time: 27.3 days.
What causes the seasons?
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What is the tilt of the Earth's axis and its revolution around the sun.
After a full moon, the moon _________.
What is wanes?
Name the three ways that an eclipse can appear from Earth.
What is total, partial, or annular?
A lunar phase where most, but not all of the moon is visible.
What is gibbous?
Why are lunar eclipses red?
They are red because red light can refract. It bends around Earth to light the moon, even though other colors cannot bend that much.