Earth & Seasons
It takes the earth one day to do this
What is rotate?
The moon has 8 of these.
What are phases?
This causes the tides.
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
When the moon blocks the sunlight from reaching the earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
These types of animals are active at night.
What are nocturnal animals?
It takes one year for the earth to do this.
What is revolve around the sun?
The moon’s cycle begins with this phase.
What is the new moon?
This occurs on the side the earth closest to and farthest from the moon.
What is high tide?
When the earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
These types of animals sleep at night.
What are diurnal animals?
The earth‘s seasons are caused by this.
What is the Earth’s axial tilt?
VWhen the right half of the moon is visible.
What is first quarter?
The number of high tides each day.
What is two?
The darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse.
What is the umbra?
To use high-pitched sounds to “see“ objects.
What is echolocation?
The line around the centre of the earth that gets direct sunlight.
What is the equator?
When the light of the moon is growing each day.
What is waxing?
The number of low tides each day.
What is two?
What is the penumbra?
The eyes of nocturnal animals have more of these cells.
What are rods?
When it is summer in the Northern hemisphere it is this season in the Southern hemisphere.
What is winter?
It takes a little less than one month for the moon to do this.
What is orbit the earth?
Eclipse Question!: This type of eclipse happens more often than the other type of eclipse.
What is lunar eclipse?
Eclipses only happen when these three things are perfectly aligned.
What are the sun, earth, and moon?
The ability to create light for communication, self-defence and hunting.
What is bioluminescence?