Moon and Tides
Has a greater effect on tides due to its proximity to the earth.
What is the moon?
The third planet from the sun.
What is earth?
A huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars
and their solar systems.
What is a galaxy?
The variable that is changed during an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Latitude.
What are the imaginary lines that measure the distance north to south?
When the earth is physically between the sun and the moon. Can only occur during a full moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Pieces of material stick together to form planets, comets, asteroids, etc.
What is accretion?
The second most abundant gas in the universe.
What is helium?
These are galaxies that are neither spiral nor elliptical.
What are irregular galaxies?
Also known as the terrestrial planets. These planets are made of rocks and minerals.
What are the inner planets?
A large tidal exchange that occurs during the full and new moon phase.
What is a spring tide?
luminous phenomenon
observed when a meteoroid enters Earth’s
atmosphere and burns up, popularly called
a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
The most common type of galaxy in the universe.
What is spiral galaxies?
A variable that is not changed during an experiment.
What is the control?
Another term for the Prime Meridian
What is the Greenwich Meridian?
The solar eclipse can only occur during this phase of the moon.
What is the new moon?
These planets have many moons orbiting around them.
What are the outer planets?
When objects, like our universe,
move away from us, the light
shifts toward the this end of the
electromagnetic spectrum.
What is Red shift?
Mass divided by density.
What is volume?
A cloud of gas and dust in which the universe formed from.
What is a solar nebula?
July 16, 1969
When did the Apollo 11 Mission Launch?
The planet with the shortest day.
What is Jupiter?
Pieces of material stick together to form planets, comets, asteroids, etc.
What is accretion?
The phase the moon is currently in.
What is waning gibbous?
230 million years
How long does it takes for the Earth's solar system to complete its orbit?