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Waxing moon

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The period between a new moon and a full moon

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Waning moon

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The period between a full moon and a new moon

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Hemisphere

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Half of the earths surface separated by the equator

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Earths axis

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An imaginary straight line between the north and the South Pole

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Umbra

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The darkest part of the shadow cast by the earth or the moon during an eclipse

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Corona

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Is the part of the sun that is visible during a full solar eclipse

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Rotation

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The earth turning on its own axis

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Solstice

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It’s the longest day in December or the shortest day in June

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Phases of the moon

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The different shapes of the moon that we can see from earth

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Revolution

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The movement around an orbit

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What causes day and night

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The earth rotating on its axis

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What causes the seasons

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The tilt of the earths axis

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How many days does it take for the moon to make one full rotation

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29.5 days

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What causes the tides

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The gravitational pull caused by the moon and the sun

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What are Spring tides

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Are the higher than normal tides

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What are neap tides

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Lower than normal tides

17
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What causes craters on the moon

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Meteorites

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Why don’t meteorites cause creators on the earth

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They burn before they reach the earth

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Which places experience 24 hours of daylight in summer and winter

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North and South Pole

20
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Label the phases of the moon

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Gibbous, new, full, crescent, quarter

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Draw and label solar eclipse

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Order is sun, moon, earth

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How does a partial eclipse occur

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The moon is not covering the hole sun but only part of it

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Why does a solar eclipse take a shorter amount of time to occur than a lunar eclipse

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Because in a lunar eclipse the earth casts a bigger shadow on the moon than the shadow cast by the moon on the earth in a solar eclipse

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How to draw and label when spring and neap tides occur

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Spring: when the new and full moon occur

Neap: when the moon is 1st quarter and 3rd quarter

25
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What was the first spacecraft to land the first humans on the moon

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Apollo 11

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Who was the first person to walk the moon, and when

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Neil Armstrong and 1969

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