LIGHT CHAPTER 6: Study Sheet

electromagnetic spectrum.
Light is part of the __________________ SEASONS

List the 7 properties of light (in any order): 23.5°

The Earth is tilted ___________ The 2 reasons for the seasons are:
Earth’s tilt
1. ______________________________________
1: Light is visible to the human eye.
Earth’s revolution takes Earth’s revolution
2. ______________________________________
2: Light travels in a straight line. 365.25
___________________ days.
3: The Sun’s light carries heat energy.
4: Light is reflected and absorbed.
spring equinox
5: Light travels extremely fast.
6: White light is mixture of all the colours of the Mar 21
( _____________)
rainbow.
7: Light can come from a natural or artificial spring winter
source.

Give two examples of NATURAL light: summer solstice winter solstice

sunshine, firefly, volcano, etc
___________________________________________
June 21
( _____________) Dec 21
( _____________)
Give two examples of ARTIFICIAL light:
lamp, phone, glow stick, etc.
___________________________________________ summer
fall
DAY & NIGHT

rotation
The Earth’s __________________ is the reason we get fall equinox
day and night.
Sept 21
( _____________)
24
One full rotation takes ________ hours.
summer solstice
The day with the most hours of sunlight: _______________________
Indicate day and night below and shade in the part winter solstice
The day with the least hours of sunlight: ________________________
of the Earth experiencing night.
Two days in which there are exactly 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night:
fall and spring equinoxes
________________________
day night
fall
When Australia has spring, Canada has ______________.
 MOON ECLIPSES
The different shapes that the moon makes are solar
This is a ___________________ eclipse. These can only happen during
phases
called ______________. new
a _________ moon.

These shapes are caused by the angle created penumbra

umbra
Sun
between the __________, Earth
_________, and
moon
____________.

When the moon looks like it is growing, we call it a

waxing
_______________ moon.

When the moon looks like it is shrinking, we call it a

waning lunar
This is a ___________________ eclipse. These can only happen during
_______________ moon.
full
a _________ moon.
The moon does not make its own light. It shines
sunlight
because ________________ reflects off it.

a specific region during day

A solar eclipse is only visible to _______________________________ whereas a lunar
everyone who is experiences night
eclipse is visible to _____________________________________________.

solar
Which type of eclipse is dangerous to look at with the naked eye? _________________
the moon’s revolution is 5° off of
We don’t always see eclipses because __________________________________________
Earth’s revolution