Earth Sun Moon System 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 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 the Earth's seasons?

• The revolution of the Earth around the Sun

• The way the Earth spins on it's axis

• The way the Earth is tilted on it's axis in relation to how it revolves around the Sun

• The way the Moon revolves around the Sun

If the alignment is Earth - Moon - Sun, what phase of the moon will we see

• Gibbous

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Crescent

What causes tides?

• The gravitational pull of the Sun only

• The gravitational pull of the Moon only

• The gravitational pull of the Earth

• The gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun on the Earth