Seasons
When North America is tilted toward the sun, this season is experienced.
What is summer?
The periodic rise and fall of water levels in oceans and other large bodies of water
What are tides?
The alignment of the sun, moon, and earth can produce shadows on the earth or moon resulting in this event.
What is an eclipse?
Following the new moon, this phase represents the moon becoming slightly more illuminated.
What is waxing crescent?
The path that a body follows around another body in space
What is orbit?
If the Earth did not have this, then we would receive the same amount of sunlight and thus the same temperature all year.
What is a tilt?
The type of tide you would see during a new or full moon.
What is a spring tide?
Type of eclipse occurring during a new moon.
What is solar eclipse?
The phases of the moon depend on how much of the illuminated side of the moon can be seen from this location.
What is Earth?
One complete trip along an orbit that takes 365.25 days for earth to complete
What is a revolution?
The time when the sun is directly above the equator.
What is an equinox?
High tide and low tide happen how many times per day?
What is 2x or twice (2) per day?
When the Earth comes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of the Earth falls on the moon.
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What is a lunar eclipse?
Name given for when the lit side of the moon appears to get smaller.
What is waning?
Earth's rotation on its axis causes this to happen.
What is day and night?
This occurs when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
What is a solstice?
The reason the moon has the greatest influence on the Earth's ocean tides
What is because it's closer to the Earth than the Sun?
Moon phase you would expect to see during a lunar eclipse?
What is a full moon?
the different appearances of the moon due to its changing position
What are phases?
Earth's natural satellite
What is the moon?
December 21, 2024
What is the winter solstice?
Type of tide occurring when Earth, Moon, and Sun form a 90° angle and have a weaker gravitational pull
What is a neap tide?
Name for the two shadows being cast during an eclipse.
What are umbra and penumbra?
Name the 4 main shapes of the moon.
What are full, gibbous, crescent, and quarter.
The imaginary line connecting the north and south pole
What is axis?