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The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

Dec 30, 2015

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Page 1: The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

The Earth and Moon

Page 2: The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

Review

What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice?

When do they occur?

What causes the seasons?

Page 3: The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

Spring Equinox – March 21Summer Solstice – June 21Autumn Equinox – September 22Winter Solstice – December 22

Page 4: The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

Review• Which day of the year is the longest in the

Northern Hemisphere?

• Which day of the year is the longest in the Southern Hemisphere?

June 21st

December 22nd

Page 5: The Earth and Moon. Review What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? What is an Equinox? What is a Solstice? When do they occur? What causes the seasons?

Relation to Culture…

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Midnight Baseball

Fairbanks, Alaska

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The Moon

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What is the Moon?• Earth’s only satellite. • That means it orbits around the earth.

What are its features?• The moon is covered by craters.• These craters have been caused by meteorites.

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How close is the Moon?

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How does the Moon move?

Rotation

Revolution

It revolves on its own axis every 28 days

It orbits the earth every 28 days

From Earth we can only see one side!

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Phases of the Moon

Waxing - Waning - Getting bigger Getting smaller

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What causes the Phases?

The position of the…

SunMoon

Earth

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The Tides

Low Tide High Tide

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What are the Tides?

What causes them?

• The periodic change in the level of the sea (and other bodies of water)

• The moon and the sun (gravity)

• Or more specifically the positioning of the moon relative to the earth

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The water level rises on the part of the Earth nearest to the Moon and on the opposite side.

This happens as the Earth rotates which means that day, every place on earth experiences:

Two High Tides

Two Low Tides

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Eclipses

One celestial body temporarily hides another

Can be partial or full

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Solar Eclipse

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• The Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth casting its shadow onto the Earth

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Lunar Eclipse

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• The Earth is between the Sun and the Moon casting its shadow on the Moon

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There was just a Total Lunar

Eclipse visible from the USA!!!