solar eclipse umbra umbra – total darkness penumbra – partial darkness

Solar Eclipse

Umbra

Umbra – Total Darkness

Penumbra – partial darkness

A total eclipse of the sunoccurs during the day!

Only the corona is visible.

What phase of the moon does a solar eclipse occur?

How come we do not have an eclipses each month?

New Moon Phase

The moon’s orbit is tilted 5°

Annular Eclipse – When the moon is too far way from

the Earth and cannot cover the Sun

Next Solar Eclipses for Long Island - 2079

Lunar Eclipse

The Earth casts a shadow on the Full

Moon

Solar Eclipses

• ______• The line up _____• ______

Lunar Eclipses

• ____• The line up ______• _____

Moon’s orbit is • ____• ____

Eclipses do not occur every month because…

Look at the next two pictures, think about what is

different?

What is the difference between the two photographs?

Picture A

Picture B

Tides are caused by

______

Earth

SU

N New Moon

Spring Tides –

NP

Work together creating a higher high tide

Higher high tide

Lower low tide

Lower low tide

Higher high tide

Full Moon

Earth

SU

N

1st Q Moon

Neap Tides –

NP

high tide

low tide

low tide

high tide

3rd Q Moon

Tide Cycle

• Time between each high tide - -

• As Earth rotates the Moon revolves in its orbit

• Moon moves 13 degrees every 24 hrs

Bay of Fundy• Extreme fluctuations

of high tide and low tide

• Located in Eastern Canada