Moon Flashcards
Waxing moon
The period between a new moon and a full moon
Waning moon
The period between a full moon and a new moon
Hemisphere
Half of the earths surface separated by the equator
Earths axis
An imaginary straight line between the north and the South Pole
Umbra
The darkest part of the shadow cast by the earth or the moon during an eclipse
Corona
Is the part of the sun that is visible during a full solar eclipse
Rotation
The earth turning on its own axis
Solstice
It’s the longest day in December or the shortest day in June
Phases of the moon
The different shapes of the moon that we can see from earth
Revolution
The movement around an orbit
What causes day and night
The earth rotating on its axis
What causes the seasons
The tilt of the earths axis
How many days does it take for the moon to make one full rotation
29.5 days
What causes the tides
The gravitational pull caused by the moon and the sun
What are Spring tides
Are the higher than normal tides
What are neap tides
Lower than normal tides
What causes craters on the moon
Meteorites
Why don’t meteorites cause creators on the earth
They burn before they reach the earth
Which places experience 24 hours of daylight in summer and winter
North and South Pole
Label the phases of the moon
Gibbous, new, full, crescent, quarter
Draw and label solar eclipse
Order is sun, moon, earth
How does a partial eclipse occur
The moon is not covering the hole sun but only part of it
Why does a solar eclipse take a shorter amount of time to occur than a lunar eclipse
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
How to draw and label when spring and neap tides occur
Spring: when the new and full moon occur
Neap: when the moon is 1st quarter and 3rd quarter
What was the first spacecraft to land the first humans on the moon
Apollo 11
Who was the first person to walk the moon, and when
Neil Armstrong and 1969
