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Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.

When your part of the earth faces the sun, you experience day. What happens to cause night? Video clip on day and night

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Sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth turns on its axis from west to east.

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The time it takes to make one trip around the sun is a year. That is one revolution.

Click here for an animation of a year.

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It takes 365.24 days for Earth to go around the sun one time. This means we are not at the same place in our orbit as we began. Because of the 0.24 equals about ¼ of a day, we add a day to our calendar every 4 years.

2008 was a leap year so we had a February 29th. Our next February 29th will be in 2012.

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Video clip on seasons

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No tilt – no seasons

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Many people believe we have summer because we are closer to the sun in the summer. Look at the diagram and explain why they are wrong!

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Bad Astronomy: Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end.

Good astronomy: If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox.

How it works: This has to be one of the silliest misconceptions around, and it never seems to die. Every year, without fail, some TV station broadcasts a news segment showing local schoolchildren standing eggs on end on the first day of spring. Usually, the newscaster will make some vague mention about how this works, but it is rarely specific, and never holds up to too much scrutiny.

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The terminator is the moving boundary between day and night. Notice that it moves right to left.

The moon does not make its own light. We see it because it reflects light from the sun.

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Daytime on the moon

Night on the moon

TerminatorRotation/revolution

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Phases of the moon are caused by the angle between the earth, moon, and sun.

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Lunar Phase animation

Another animation

Video clip on phases

Notice that the terminator is moving right to left.

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Waxing means getting bigger every night.

Waning means getting smaller every night.

Crescent means less than half the surface of the moon facing you is lit by the sun.

Gibbous means more than half of the surface of the moon facing you is lit by the sun.

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Review this diagram and name the phases on the following slides!

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Waning crescent

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Waxing gibbous

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Waxing crescent

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Last quarter

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Waning crescent

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Waning gibbous

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First quarter

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Two kinds:

Lunar eclipsesSolar eclipses Video clip on

eclipses

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Eclipse animation

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Time lapse photography of a lunar eclipse

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Animation of solar eclipse

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Diamond ring effect just before or after a total solar eclipse.

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This animation shows the relative sizes of the partial and total eclipse areas. The small, black dot is the umbra. You can see why not many people ever see a total eclipse.

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This is a space shuttle photograph of an area of the Earth having a total solar eclipse.

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Types of Solar Eclipses1. Total Solar Eclipses occur when the umbra of the Moon's

shadow touches a region on the surface of the Earth. 2. Partial Solar Eclipses occur when the penumbra of the

Moon's shadow passes over a region on the Earth's surface.

3. Annular Solar Eclipses occur when a region on the Earth's surface is in line with the umbra, but the distances are such that the tip of the umbra does not reach the Earth's surface.

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Link to NASA eclipse pageBe sure to scroll down for a list of upcoming eclipses.

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This is a review of tides since we studied them already!

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Video clip on tides

Watch the change in water level in the Bay of Fundy in Canada.

This happens two times a day because there are two high tides and two low tides each day.

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Notice that every six hours there is a high or low tide.

If high tide occurs today at 6:00 am in Savannah, GA, what time will be low tide? When will the next high tide occur?

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Because the sun also affects the tides, there are times with the sun and move work against each other and times when their forces are added together.

Video clip on sun and tides

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