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Study Guide: Earth/Moon
Shows phases of the moon and position during eclipses
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Science
8th Grade
02/15/2012

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Earth rotates on its axis about once every year.(T/F)
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FALSE
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Night and day on Earth are caused by Earth's revolution around the Sun. (T/F)
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FALSE
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A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the moon(T/F)
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TRUE
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Day and night are caused by
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Earth's rotation.
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One complete revolution of earth around the sun takes about
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365 1/4 days.
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Earth has seasons because
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it has a planetary tilt of 23.5
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when the north end of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun, North America will experience
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Summer
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The phases of the moon you depends on
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the position of the moon
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From new moon phase to full mon phase you see (think amount of sunlight)
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Waxing Cresent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon
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For a Solar Eclipse to occur,
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the Moon has to in the Sunlight between the Sun and the Earth
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During what phase can a lunar eclipse occur?
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Full Moon
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when are tides hightest? (think relative positions)
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New Moon
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