Moon Phases
What moon phases occur during a spring tide?
What is a new moon or a full moon.
If the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in a straight line, what kind of tide is occurring?
What is a spring tide.
What causes Earth's season?
What is the tilt of Earth's axis.
Why is there not an eclipse every month?
What is the moon's tilted path around the Earth.
What is Ms. Altman's favorite color?
How many phases does the moon have?
What is 8.
What causes the Earth's tides?
What is the gravitational pull on Earth's oceans by the moon and sun.
What season is taking place in the Northern hemisphere if we are pointed towards the sun?
What is summer.
What causes a solar eclipse?
What is the moon covering the sun.
In what part of the plant does photosynthesis occur?
What is the chloroplast.
What moon phases occur during a neap tide?
What is a 1st quarter or 3rd quarter moon.
If the Sun, Moon, and Earth are at a 90 degree angle, what kind of tide is occurring?
What is a neap tide.
Why is the equator always warm?
What is it is located closer to the sun.
Why is the moon's orbit elliptical?
What is the sun's gravitational pull on the moon.
Where can carbon be found?
What is all living things, rocks, the atmosphere, dissolved in the ocean, and in fossil fuels.
What is it called when the moon appears to grow?
What is waxing.
Does the sun or moon have a stronger gravitational pull on Earth's tides? And why?
What is the moon because it is closer to Earth than the sun.
If the Southern Hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, what season is it in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is winter.
A lunar eclipse can only happen during which moon phase?
What is a full moon.
The Law of Conservation of Mass states what?
What is that matter cannot be created or destroyed.
How long does it take for the moon to go through all 8 phases?
What is 29.5 days.
What do we call a tide that has a large range?
What is spring tide.
What is an equinox?
What is when day and night are of equal length.
What has to happen with the Earth and Moon for an eclipse to occur?
What is the alignment of their horizontal planes.
When does Ms. Altman get married?
What is June.