Question | Answer |
What are the two types of tides? | Spring Tide, Neap Tide. |
What is a Spring Tide? | A tide with the greatest different between low and high tides. |
When does a Spring Tide happen? | When the sun, earth, and moon are in a straight line. |
At what phases of the moon does a Spring Tide happen? | The new moon and full moon. |
What is a Neap Tide? | A tide with the lowest difference between low and high tides. |
When does a Neap Tide happen? | When the earth, moon and sun create a 90 degree angle. |
At what phases of the moon does a Neap Tide happen? | The First Quarter and Third Quarter. |
What are the moon phases? | New moon, waxing crescent moon, first quarter half moon, waxing gibbous moon, full moon, waning gibbous moon, last quarter half moon, waning crescent moon. |
When does a Lunar Eclipse happen? | On a full moon where the Earth is directly between the Moon and Sun. |
Why does a Lunar Eclipse happen? | Because the Earth is blocking the Sunlight from reaching the moon. |
Why does the moon have a reddish tint during a Lunar Eclipse? | Because the Earth's atmosphere bends some of the sunlight towards the moon. |
When does a Solar Eclipse happen? | When the Moon passes directly between the Earth and Sun. |
Why does a Solar eclipse happen? | Because the moon blocks sunlight from the Earth. |
The Earth's nearest star is? | The Sun |
How long does the moon take to orbit the Earth? | 27.5 days then 2 more days to catch up to the Earth. |
How long does the Earth rotate for? | 24 hours |
How many days does it take for the earth to revolve around the Sun? | 365 |
Who was the first man in Space? | Yuri Gagarin |
How often do the tides rise and fall? | It rises about every 6 hours and falls about every 6 hours on a regular basis. |
What is an Intertidal Zone? | When an area is underwater at high tide and dry at low tide. |
Define diameter. | The length of the straight line through the center of a circle or another round object from side to side. |
Is the Earth the center of the solar system? | No, at first people thought it was but it's not. |
What causes the seasons? | When the Earth revolves around the sun, the different countries experience seasons. |
What is the difference between revolve and rotate? | Revolve means to spin and go around something but rotate means to spin around its axis. |
How do you measure weight? | Newtons |
How do you measure mass? | Kg |
Order of the planets? | The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Astroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. |
How does the earth affect day and night? | The Earth affects day and night by rotating. |
How many sides of the moon can we see? | One , because the moon takes the same amount of time to rotate as it takes to revolve around the earth. |
Why are there high and low tides? | Because the moon pulls the earth's water towards it but also pulls the Earth a bit so there is some water left on the other side of the earth. |
What are tides? | The regular rising and falling of water. |
Which way does the moon orbit around the earth? | Counter clockwise. |
When and why does an eclipse happen? | It happens when the Earth is blocking the Moon's sunlight or the Moon is blocking the Earth's sunlight. |