Eclipse/ Tides Vocabulary

The complete or partial blocking of light from the sun or moon that occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth and casts a shadow on Earth, or when the Moon enters the shadow of the earth

• Ellipse

• Eclipse

• Shadow

• Umbra

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An eclipse in which part of the full moon's illuminated disk becomes temporarily darkened by the Earth's shadow; occurs when the Moon moves partially into the umbra of Earth's shadow

• Total Lunar Eclipse

• Partial Lunar Eclipse

• Total Solar Eclipse

• Partial Solar Eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An eclipse in which the new moon temporarily blocks part of the sun's disk;occurs when the new moon, Earth, and the sun are not completely aligned and the umbra of the Moon's shadow falls on space and viewers on Earth are located in the penumbra of the Moon's shadow

• Partial Solar Eclipse

• Total Solar Eclipse

• Total Lunar Eclipse

• Partial Lunar Eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The inner, darker part of a shadow

• Tidal Bulge

• Shadow

• Penumbra

• Umbra

The lighter, outer part of the shadow cone.

• Penumbra

• Umbra

• Shadow

The blocking of the sun's light that occurs during a new moon when the moon's shadow falls on Earth

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The blocking of sunlight to the moon; occurs during a full moon, when the moon passes through Earth's shadow.

• Path of totality

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An area where light is blocked by an object

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

• Shadow

• Umbra

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A type of solar eclipse in which the moon is too far from Earth to cover the sun completely, so the outer edge of the sun us seen as a ring.

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

• Path of totality

• Annular Eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The path traced on the Earth's surface by the moon's shadow (more precisely, the umbra) during a total eclipse of the sun.

• Elliptical Orbit

• Path of totality

• Shadow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1