Earth, sun, and moon
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Rotation | The spinning of the earth on its axis
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| Revolution | Revolving and rotation around the sun or the movement of the earth around their sun circular and
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| Axis | Invisible line that goes throught the north and south poles
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| Equator | The imaginary line that goes through the middle of the Earth and 0° latitude
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| Seasons | Period of the year characterized by particular conditions of weather temperature due to the tilt of Earth's axis
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| Axial tilt | The tilt of Earth's axis pointing towards Polaris and it causes seasons it is tilted at a 23.5° angle
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| Lunar Eclipse | An eclipse that the moon must be a full moon. It lines up with the eclipse point it happens once every 18 months. The moon gives off an orangey completion
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| Solar eclipse | An eclipse where the moon must be a new moon and it covers up the sun it gives a silvery ring around the sun.
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| Neap tide | Lowest tide
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| Spring tide | The highest and lowest tide
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| New moon | No light is reflected off the moon therefore there looks like there is not moon
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| Full moon | All of the half side of the moon is lit
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| First quarter | Half of the moon is lit. To the right
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| Third quarter | Half of the moon is lit to the left
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| Waxing | Gradually growing
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| Waning | Gradually fading
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| Waxing crescent | Less than a quarter of a moon on the right
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| Waxing gibbous | More than a quarter less than a full moon on the right
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| Waning crescent | Less than quarter more than new moon on the left
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| Waning gibbous | More than a quarter less than a full on the left
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| Wave | An uprising of water by wind
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| Tide | A bulge of water caused by. The gravitational pull of the moon
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| Umbra | The effect of the total eclipse
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| Penumbra | That area if the partial effect of the eclipse
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| Total eclipse | An area in the umbra the black part of a diagram where one can see all if the eclipse
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| Partial eclipse | An area in the penumbra the white stuff in the diagram where one can see part of the eclipse
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| Polaris | The star where axis points to also referred to as the North Star
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