Earth/Moon/Sun Review!

The visible part of the Moon becomes larger

• Waxing

• waning

• New moon

• Crescent moon

The visible part of the Moon becomes smaller

• full moon

• waxing

• waning

• crescent moon

The daily rising and falling levels of the oceans and other large bodies of water

• oceans

• gravity

• lakes

• tides

the beginning of summer or winter: days on which the hours of daylight are longest or shortest

• eclipse

• solstice

• ellipse

• gravity

the spin of an object around its axis

• rotation

• revolution

• orbit

• spinning

the orbit of one object around another object

• circling

• spinning

• rotation

• revolution

beginning of spring and fall; days on which hours of daylight equal hours of darkness

• lunar eclipse

• solstice

• eclipse

• equinox

movement of one solar system object into the shadow of another object

• equator

• equinox

• solstice

• eclipse

What causes our days and nights here on Earth?

• The rotation of the moon

• The rotation of the Earth on its axis

• The revolution of the Moon

• The revolution of the Earth

What is Earth's axis?

• An imaginary line through the center of the Earth

• A metal pole through the center of the Earth

• The way the Earth revolves

• The way the moon revolves