Earth, Moon, Sun Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Rotation | The spinning of the earth on its axis |
Revolution | The movement of the earth around the sun |
Axis | The invisible line that goes through the poles |
Equator | The invisible line that divides the earth horizontally to create the northern and southern hemisphere |
Tilt | The way the earth sits on its axis. It aproximtie this is about 23.5* |
Hemisphere | The way the earth is divided up creating time zones and seasons |
Seasons | Temperature changes due to the rotation of the earth |
Lunar Eclipse | Sun, earth then the moon which is in earth's shadow. This lasts a couple of hours |
Solar eclipse | Sun moon then earth the moon blocks the sun's light creating a corona around the moon and this last only 5 minutes |
Neap tide | tides that happen at first/last quarter creating small waves |
Spring tide | tide that happen at new/full phases creating giant waves |
New moon | this happens when the moon is in front of the sun |
Full moon | this happens when the moon is getting full light from sun |
1st quarter | between waxing crescent/gibbous |
3rd quarter | between waning crescent/gibbous |
waxing | seeing more of the moon |
waning | seeing less of the moon |
waxing crescent | between new and 1st quarter moon |
waxing gibbous | between 1st quarter and full moon |
waning crescent | between 3rd quarter and new moon |
waning gibbous | between full and 3rd quarter moon |
wave | a disturbance in water |
tide | the rise and fall of water |
umbra | darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body |
penumbra | a portion of the light source is obscured by the occluding body |
total eclipse | an eclipse where the eclipsed body is completely obscured |
partial eclipse | an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured |
polaris | a northern star |
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