Hiranandani Foundation School International

2023-2024

SUBJECT: SCIENCE GRADE – VI DIV-A/B/C DATE: 21st Feb 2024

STUDENT`S NAME: TOPIC – EARTH PHYSICS WORK SHEET
Ans. An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that
passes between them. Solar eclipse is an example of it.

Ans. To remove the misconceptions about eclipses, such as we should not eat during eclipses,
etc., following efforts can be made:
Efforts that we can make to remove the misconceptions about eclipses are:
• We should use social media and communicate with other people. We can tell them
about the scientific reason behind the occurrence of eclipses.
• We should keep discussing such things in our schools and classes.
• We can teach kids and people who are not aware of the formation of at the time of solar
eclipse and lunar eclipse.
Ans. If the sun doesn’t “rise”, it means that the earth is in a tidal lock with the sun, the same way the
moon is locked with earth. There would be one side of the earth that will eternally face the sun and a
side always in darkness. Since we will be missing sunrise, then we would be living on the dark side. It
will be cold on the dark side, the day side will be really hot, killing a great amount of life forcing
billions of people to move to the penumbra zones which would have a milder temperature and where
you would see the sun above the horizon, never setting, never rising.
OCCULTATION

In space, an occultation happens when one object passes in front of

another from an observer's perspective. A simple example is a solar
eclipse. From a certain area on Earth, the moon passes in front of the
sun and either partially or totally blocks the light. So we can say that the
sun is "eclipsed" or "occulted."
A lunar eclipse is another example of an occultation, but the description is
a little more complicated. When this happens, anybody on the dark side
of the Earth can watch the moon pass into the Earth's shadow, so that
the Earth is directly in between the Earth and the sun. This eclipse or
occultation turns the moon red-brown because it catches the reflected
light on the edge of Earth's atmosphere, where the wavelengths are
longest.
We have a slightly different view of the Moon each night. We describe how the Moon
looks with the eight Moon phases, or shapes:

🌑 New
🌒 Waxing Crescent
🌓 First Quarter
🌔 Waxing Gibbous
🌕 Full
🌖 Waning Gibbous
🌗 Third Quarter
🌘 Waning Crescent

The eight Moon phases:

🌑 New: We cannot see the Moon when it is a new moon.

🌒 Waxing Crescent: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the waxing crescent phase
as a thin crescent of light on the right.
🌓 First Quarter: We see the first quarter phase as a half moon.
🌔 Waxing Gibbous: The waxing gibbous phase is between a half moon and full
moon. Waxing means it is getting bigger.
🌕 Full: We can see the Moon completely illuminated during full moons.
🌖 Waning Gibbous: The waning gibbous phase is between a full moon and a half
moon. Waning means it is getting smaller.
🌗 Third Quarter: We see the third quarter moon as a half moon, too. It is the
opposite half as illuminated in the first quarter moon.
🌘 Waning Crescent: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the waning crescent phase
as a thin crescent of light on the left.
The Moon displays these eight phases one after the other as it moves through its cycle
each month. It takes about 27.3 days for the Moon to orbit Earth. However, because of
how sunlight hits the Moon, it takes about 29.5 days to go from one new moon to the
next new moon.