Earth, sun, and moon Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Rotation | The spinning of the earth on its axis |
Revolution | Revolving and rotation around the sun or the movement of the earth around their sun circular and |
Axis | Invisible line that goes throught the north and south poles |
Equator | The imaginary line that goes through the middle of the Earth and 0° latitude |
Seasons | Period of the year characterized by particular conditions of weather temperature due to the tilt of Earth's axis |
Axial tilt | The tilt of Earth's axis pointing towards Polaris and it causes seasons it is tilted at a 23.5° angle |
Lunar Eclipse | An eclipse that the moon must be a full moon. It lines up with the eclipse point it happens once every 18 months. The moon gives off an orangey completion |
Solar eclipse | An eclipse where the moon must be a new moon and it covers up the sun it gives a silvery ring around the sun. |
Neap tide | Lowest tide |
Spring tide | The highest and lowest tide |
New moon | No light is reflected off the moon therefore there looks like there is not moon |
Full moon | All of the half side of the moon is lit |
First quarter | Half of the moon is lit. To the right |
Third quarter | Half of the moon is lit to the left |
Waxing | Gradually growing |
Waning | Gradually fading |
Waxing crescent | Less than a quarter of a moon on the right |
Waxing gibbous | More than a quarter less than a full moon on the right |
Waning crescent | Less than quarter more than new moon on the left |
Waning gibbous | More than a quarter less than a full on the left |
Wave | An uprising of water by wind |
Tide | A bulge of water caused by. The gravitational pull of the moon |
Umbra | The effect of the total eclipse |
Penumbra | That area if the partial effect of the eclipse |
Total eclipse | An area in the umbra the black part of a diagram where one can see all if the eclipse |
Partial eclipse | An area in the penumbra the white stuff in the diagram where one can see part of the eclipse |
Polaris | The star where axis points to also referred to as the North Star |
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