1. Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
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2. Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
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SC.8.E.5.9 Explain the impact of objects in space on each other including: 1. The Sun on the Earth including seasons and gravitational attraction, 2. The Moon on the Earth, including phases, tides, and eclipses, and the relative position of each body.
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3. Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
Round and Round They Go!
How are Earth, the moon, and the sun related in space?
Earth spins on its axis and orbits around the sun.
A body that orbits a larger body is called a satellite.
Smaller bodies that travel around planets are natural satellites called moons.
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4. How are Earth, the moon, and the sun related in space?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How are Earth, the moon, and the sun related in space?
Gravity is the force that pulls all bodies that have mass toward other objects.
Earth’s gravitational pull on the moon keeps the moon in orbit, forming the Earth-moon system.
The distance between Earth and the moon is roughly 383,000 km (238,000 mi).
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5. What does the moon look like from Earth?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
What does the moon look like from Earth?
The moon is only visible from Earth when it reflects sunlight.
Only one side of the moon, often called the near side, faces Earth.
The moon rotates once on its axis for every 28.5 days it takes to revolve around Earth.
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6. What does the moon look like from Earth?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
What does the moon look like from Earth?
Why do you always see the same side of the moon?
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7. It’s Just a Phase! How does the appearance of the moon change?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
It’s Just a Phase!
How does the appearance of the moon change?
As the moon revolves around Earth, the portion of the moon that reflects sunlight back to Earth changes.
The lunar phases are changes in the moon’s appearance due to its position in orbit around Earth.
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8. How does the appearance of the moon change?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How does the appearance of the moon change?
Lunar phases cycle monthly and begin with a new moon.
The new moon is hard to see because Earth, the moon, and the sun are lined up, making the moon unlit.
As the moon moves in its orbit, a crescent shape grows larger.
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9. How does the appearance of the moon change?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How does the appearance of the moon change?
The moon waxes, or grows until half of the near side is in sunlight. This is the first quarter.
The gibbous phase is when the near side is more than half-lit but not fully lit.
When the moon is fully lit, it is called a full moon.
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10. How does the appearance of the moon change?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How does the appearance of the moon change?
The lit portion of the moon shrinks, or wanes, during the third week of the cycle.
When the near side is only half-lit in sunlight, it is three-quarters through the cycle. The phase is called the third quarter.
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11. How does the appearance of the moon change?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How does the appearance of the moon change?
When the moon is seen as waning crescent shapes, the cycle is almost complete.
When the moon is again unlit as a new moon, the cycle is complete.
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12. Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
Exploring Eclipses
An eclipse is an event during which one object in space casts a shadow on another object.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon moves through Earth’s shadow.
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13. Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
Some helpful vocab
The umbra is the darkest part of a shadow. Around the umbra is a spreading cone of lighter shadow called the penumbra.
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14. How do solar eclipses occur?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How do solar eclipses occur?
When the moon is directly between the sun and Earth, the shadow of the moon falls on a part of Earth and causes a solar eclipse.
When the sun’s light is completely blocked by the moon, it is a total solar eclipse.
Outside the umbra, but within the penumbra, people see a partial solar eclipse.
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15. How do solar eclipses occur?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How do solar eclipses occur?
The moon’s umbra makes a shadow that is never more than a few hundred kilometers across.
A total eclipse covers only a part of Earth and can only be seen in particular areas.
A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth every one to two years.
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16. How do solar eclipses occur?
Unit 4 Lesson 2 Moon Phases and Eclipses
How do solar eclipses occur?
Why is a total solar eclipse visible over only a small portion of Earth?
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17. A Rising Tide of Interest
Unit 4 Lesson 3 Earth’s Tides
A Rising Tide of Interest
What causes tides?
Tides are daily changes in the level of ocean water.
Tides are caused by the difference in the gravitational force of the sun and moon across Earth.
The difference in gravitational force is called the tidal force.
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18. Spinning in Circles What determines the length of a day?
Unit 4 Lesson 1 Earth’s Days, Years, and Seasons
Spinning in Circles
What determines the length of a day?
Each planet spins on its axis.
The spinning of a body, such as a planet, on its axis is called rotation.
The time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on its axis is called a day.
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19. What determines the length of a year?
Unit 4 Lesson 1 Earth’s Days, Years, and Seasons
What determines the length of a year?
As Earth rotates on its axis, it also revolves around the sun.
The motion of a body that travels around another body in space is called revolution.
Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 ¼ days, or about one year. We have divided the year into 12 months, each lasting 28 to 31 days.
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20. What conditions are affected by the tilt of Earth’s axis?
Unit 4 Lesson 1 Earth’s Days, Years, and Seasons
What conditions are affected by the tilt of Earth’s axis?
The angle at which the sun’s rays strike each part of Earth’s surface changes as Earth moves in its orbit.
When the North Pole is tilted toward the sun, the sun’s rays strike the Northern Hemisphere more directly, and this region is warmer.
When the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, the sun’s rays strike the Northern Hemisphere less directly, and this region is cooler.
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21. Seasons change … What causes seasons?
Unit 4 Lesson 1 Earth’s Days, Years, and Seasons
Seasons change …
What causes seasons?
Most locations on Earth experience seasons. Each season is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends.
We experience seasons due to changes in the intensity of sunlight and the number of daylight hours as Earth revolves around the sun.
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