Moon,SesonTides 2022 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Away | The moon moves ______ from the sun when it's waxing |
Solar Eclipse | An event when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun |
Tides | Water bulges on the Earth's surface due mostly to the moon's gravity |
Solstice | The longest or shortest day of the year |
June | The month when the Southern hemisphere's Winter Solstice takes place |
Terminator | The line that separates day time from night time |
Rotation | The Earth experiences day and night because of the earth's ___ |
Waning Gibbous | A moon phase in which most of the moon is lit up and the bright side is on the left |
Waxing | Moon phases in which the bright side is on the right side & the moon appears to be growing larger each night |
Seven | The approximate # of days it takes for the moon to complete 1/4 of its revolution around the Earth |
Neap tides | When the tidal range between high and low tides is small |
Phases | The different appearances of the moon are called _________ |
Axis | The Earth rotates around it's ______ once every 24 hours |
Full Moon | The moon phase when a lunar eclipse can occur |
Equinox | The event in which the daytime hours are equal to night time hours in both hemispheres |
Last Quarter | Moon phase in which half of the moon is lit and the dark side is on the right side |
Tilted | The Earth experiences different seasons because it orbits the Sun and because it is _________ |
Spring Tides | The event that occurs at full and New moon phases |
Waning | Moon phases in which the bright side of the moon is on its left side & the moon moves towards the Sun |
Revolution | The Earth makes one of these around the sun every 365 days |
Waning Crescent | The moon phase that occurs 14 days after a Waxing Gibbous moon. |
twenty Five | the percentage of the moons orbit that is covered in 7 days |
New Moon | The moon phase that would occur three weeks after a 1st quarter moon |
spinning | Another name for rotation |
Orbit | Another name for revolution |
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