8th Moon Seasons & Tides TEST Review
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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| Away | The moon moves ______ from the sun when it's waxing
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| Solar Eclipse | An event when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun
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| Tides | Water bulges on the Earth's surface due mostly to the moon's gravity
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| Solstice | The longest or shortest day of the year
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| June | The month when the Southern hemisphere's Winter Solstice takes place
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| Terminator | The line that separates day time from night time
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| Rotation | The Earth experiences day and night because of the earth's ___
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| Waning Gibbous | A moon phase in which most of the moon is lit up and the bright side is on the left
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| Waxing | Moon phases in which the bright side is on the right side & the moon appears to be growing larger each night
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| Seven | The approximate # of days it takes for the moon to complete 1/4 of its revolution around the Earth
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| Neap tides | When the tidal range between high and low tides is small
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| Phases | The different appearances of the moon are called _________
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| Axis | The Earth rotates around it's ______ once every 24 hours
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| Full Moon | The moon phase when a lunar eclipse can occur
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| Equinox | The event in which the daytime hours are equal to night time hours in both hemispheres
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| Last Quarter | Moon phase in which half of the moon is lit and the dark side is on the right side
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| Tilted | The Earth experiences different seasons because it orbits the Sun and because it is _________
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| Spring Tides | The event that occurs at full and New moon phases
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| Waning | Moon phases in which the bright side of the moon is on its left side & the moon moves towards the Sun
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| Revolution | The Earth makes one of these around the sun every 365 days
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| Waning Crescent | The moon phase that occurs 14 days after a Waxing Gibbous moon.
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| twenty Five | the percentage of the moons orbit that is covered in 7 days
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| New Moon | The moon phase that would occur three weeks after a 1st quarter moon
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| spinning | Another name for rotation
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| Orbit | Another name for revolution
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