Question | Answer |
A device that measures time using shadows cast by an object that blocks the sunlight. | Sundial |
The object on a sundial blocking direct light from the sun & casting a shadow. | gnomon |
A line through the center of a body and which the body rotates or spins. | Axis |
The amount of time it takes a body to spine on its axis. | Day |
Bouncing back light from a surface. | Reflection |
Bounced back off a surface. | Reflected |
The illuminated part of the moon visible from earth at a given time. | Phase of the moon. |
The path that a solar system object takes while going around another solar system object. | Orbit |
The line at which the sky & earth appear to meet. (Like a sunset on a lake.) | Horizon |
The line at which the sky & moon appear to meet. | Lunar horizon |
A unit of measurement with 4 angles. ??? | Degree |
The blacking of light from 1 object in space by another object in space. | Eclipse |
When the moon passes between the sun & earth, so that light from the sun is partially or totally blocked. | Solar Eclipse. |
When the moon passes through the earth's shadow so that some or all of the moon can only be seen by reflected light from Earth. | Lunar Eclipse. |
The complete blocking of light from 1 object in space by another object in space seen from a particular location. | Total Eclipse. |
The blocking of a percent of light from one object in space by another object in space. | Partial Eclipse. |
The dark inner shadow cast by an object. | Umbra (THINK OF AN UMBRELLA!) |
The lighter outer shadow cast by an object. | Pneumbra |
A change in which 1 or more lower mass elements produces a higher mass element w/a release of __________?? amounts of energy. | Fusion Reaction |
Outer portion at the suns' atmosphere consisting of super heated gases. ???? | Corona |
The raise & fall of the surface level of a body of water due 2 the tide moving & ________gravatational pull. ???? | Tide |
The time for a certain location when the tide is at its highest point. | High Tide. |
The time for a certain location when the tide is at its lower point. | Low Tide. |
A model or set of ideas used toe explain why things occur or have occurred. | Theory. |