Sun & Earth ☀️🌍
The Sun provides this to Earth, making life possible.
What is energy (light and heat)?
Earth is tilted on its axis about this many degrees.
What is 23.5°?
This phase occurs when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun.
What is a new moon?
Tides are mainly caused by the gravitational pull of this object.
What is the Moon?
This eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
This force keeps Earth moving in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
Seasons are NOT caused by this common misconception.
What is Earth’s distance from the Sun?
The Moon phase where the entire face is visible from Earth.
What is a full moon?
This tide occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are aligned.
What is a spring tide?
This eclipse occurs when Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Seasons are caused by Earth’s tilt and this motion around the Sun.
What is revolution?
This season occurs when neither hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.
What are spring or fall (equinox)?
Moon phases are caused by this, not Earth’s shadow.
What is the Moon’s position relative to Earth and the Sun?
This type of tide occurs when the Sun and Moon pull at right angles.
What is a neap tide?
Eclipses only happen when the Moon is near this position.
What is the node?
When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, it experiences this season.
What is summer?
When the Sun’s rays hit Earth more directly, this happens to temperatures.
What is they increase?
It takes about this long for the Moon to complete one cycle of phases.
What is about 29.5 days?
Most coastlines experience this many high tides per day.
What are two?
During a lunar eclipse, Earth is positioned between these two objects.
What are the Sun and the Moon?
The Sun’s gravitational pull keeps Earth in a stable path called this.
What is an orbit?
This term describes when one hemisphere receives the most daylight.
What is a solstice?
This phase happens when half of the Moon appears lit and is increasing.
What is first quarter?
The Moon’s gravity causes oceans to do this on Earth.
What is bulge or rise?
This term describes how the Sun, Earth, and Moon are arranged during eclipses.
What is alignment?