Moon Phases
This moon phase occurs when the Moon is completely lit.
What is a Full Moon?
Earth spinning on its axis causes this daily event.
What is day and night?
What force causes ocean tides?
What is the Moon’s gravitational pull?
This Earth sphere includes plants, animals, and humans.
What is the Biosphere?
In a globe and flashlight model, what does the flashlight represent?
What is the Sun?
A student observes a full moon. What phase will come next?
What is Waning Gibbous?
If Earth rotated faster, this would happen to the length of a day?
What is days would be shorter?
The Moon causes ocean water to do this, creating high and low tides.
What is bulge?
Which sphere includes oceans, lakes, and rivers?
What is the Hydrosphere?
What should a student do to model day and night with a basketball?
What is shine a light on one side and spin the ball?
Moon phases happen because we see different amounts of what?
What is Light from the sun?
Earth’s movement around the Sun is called this.
What is revolution?
When the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up, tides are strongest. These tides are called…
What are spring tides?
Which Earth layer is the thinnest?
What is the Crust?
In an experiment, what is the independent variable?
What is what the scientist changes?
True or False: The Moon causes seasons on Earth.
What is False?
Earth would not have seasons without this feature.
What is Earth’s tilt?
Which object has the greatest effect on Earth’s tides?
What is the Moon?
Which Earth layer is the thickest?
What is the Mantle?
Why do scientists use models?
What is to explain things too big, small, or dangerous to observe directly?
After a Full Moon, the Moon begins to do this.
What is waning?
Which movement of Earth is modeled using a spinning basketball?
What is rotation?
True or False: The Moon causes day and night on Earth.
What is False?
Which Earth sphere includes air?
What is the Atmosphere?
What was the purpose of the smell-and-memory experiment?
What is to test whether smells affect memory?