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Moon Phases Caudell

Moon Phases

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Waxing To grow, increase in size, enlarge.
Waning To get smaller, decrease in size, shrink.
New Moon When the moon is completely dark because the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun. 1st phase
Full Moon When the moon is completely bright because the Earth is between the Sun and Moon.
Crescent A thin curved shape that’s thicker in the middle and tapers to thin points at each end.
Gibbous A ¾ moon. When the moon is more than half way full.
Quarter Moon Occurs when half (1/2) of the moon is lit up.
Space View What the moon looks like if we were floating above Earth and looking down.
Earth View What the moon looks like to us on Earth. 8 different phases.
Illuminate To brighten with light; to make luminous.
Cycle a course or series of events that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point.
Perpendicular Being at right angles to a given line or plane.
Phase A distinguishable part in a course, development, or cycle.
Intensity The strength an object possesses, such as amount of light.
Counterclockwise in a direction opposite to that in which the hands of a clock rotate.
Sequence To arrange in a pattern.
Rotation The spin of an object on its axis. Causes day and night.
Revolution The orbit or movement of one object around another. Causes Seasons.
Axis An imaginary line through the middle of an object.
Hemisphere One half of a sphere, such as one half of the Earth.
Neap Tide Lower high tides and Higher low tides. Occurs on 1st and 3rd Quarter Moons
Spring Tide Super high High tides and Super low Low tides. Occurs on New and Full Moons
Moon Earth's only natural satellite
Maria large dark flat areas of the moon
Craters depressions that formed when objects crashed into the moon
Highlands light colored areas on the moon that are higher then Maria and covered with craters
Lunar Cycle from new moon to new moon takes 29.5 days
Umbra the central, darker part of a shadow which light is totally blocked
Penumbra the lighter part of a shadow in which light is partially blocked
solar eclipse when the moons shadow passes over Earth's surface they align as sun- moon-Earth
Lunar eclipse When the moon moves into Earth's shadow they align as sun-Earth- Moon
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