Phases, Eclipses, and Tides

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Phases, Eclipses, and Tides

• Section 19.3

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Moon Motions

• Revolves around Earth
• once every 27.3 days
• Rotates around its axis
• once every 27.3 days
• Because of the moons
• movements, the same side
• of the moon always faces Earth

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Moon Phases
29.5 day cycle
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• Teachers' Domain Phases of the Moon

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http//www.moongiant.com/Blue_Moon_Calendar.php
Names of the Full Moons
January Wolf Moon February Snow
Moon March Sap Moon April Pink
Moon May Flower Moon June Strawberry
Moon July Buck Moon August Sturgeon
Moon September Harvest Moon October Hunter
Moon November Beaver Moon December Cold Moon
Blue Moon second full moon of a
single month. Occurs, on average, every
2.72 years
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Eclipses

• When the moons shadow hits Earth or the Earths
  shadow hit the moon

Half the Earth can view eclipse at the same time
Only the people in the umbra can view the eclipse
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Partial Eclipse of the Moon

• http//www.moongiant.com/Lunar_Eclipse_Calendar.ph
  p
• http//www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar-eclipse-n
  ovember-2012.html

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Solar Eclipse

• http//www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/total-solar-ecl
  ipse-november-2012.html
• http//eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEanimate/SEanimate20
  01/SE2012Nov13T.GIF

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What causes tides?

• Tides are caused by gravity between the Earth,
  moon, and sun

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What causes tides?

• The moons gravity pulls on Earths surface
  closest to the moon causing water to create a
  bulge
• Water is stolen from the sides to create the
  bulge
• The side of Earth furthest from the moon has the
  least effect of moons gravity and has a bulge
  that is the left behind water

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Different kinds of tides

• The suns gravity can add to the moons pull or
  even it out depending on the positions of the
  sun, moon and Earth

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Different kinds of tides

• Spring Tides
• - highest high tides, lowest low tides
• - sun, moon, Earth are in line
• Neap Tides
• - lowest high tides, highest low tides
• - sun, moon, Earth are at right angles

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Tides
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