Moon Paper Concept Map

Tonight, you need to complete your moon paper concept map that we started in class. We will begin writing our Argument Papers tomorrow. You should have three pieces of evidence or facts to support your reasoning in each paragraph.

Main Idea: The moon looks different over time because...
Paragraph 1: We see the phases of the moon in the order that we do because...
Paragraph 2: We only see eclipses once in a while because...
Paragraph 3: We only see one side of the moon because...
Paragraph 4: The moon rises and sets at different times each day because...

Some vocabulary and/or facts that you might include in your concept map:
- period of rotation (Earth- approx 24 hours; moon- approx 28 days)
- period of revolution (Earth- approx 365 days; moon- approx 28 days)
- angle of inclination (There is a 5 degree angle of inclination between the Earth and the moon when the moon is in the full (5 degrees above the bisecting line) and new (5 degrees below the bisecting line) moon phases)
- bisecting line, equatorial line
- node
- perspective (as in "From our perspective on Earth, we see... )
- eclipse
- phase (new, full, first quarter, third quarter)
- rotational direction (counter clockwise or clockwise as viewed from the North pole of the Earth)
- orbital direction (counter clockwise or clockwise as viewed from the North pole of the Earth)