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    lunar eclipse: passing of the moon through the earths shadow LESSON | What is a lunar eclipse? 19 |As you know, the moon does not give off its own light, The moon gets its light fram the sun. The light then reflects onto the earth “The moon revolves around the earth, Most ofthe time the moon does not move into the earth’s shadow. But sometimes it does. Since the earth is much bigger than the moon, the earth has « much bigger shadow. The ‘moon can fit in this shadow. When the moon moves into the earth's shadow, we have a lunar eclipse. During lunar eclipse, hardly any sunlight reaches the moor. The moon becomes very dim. You may ask, “How does the moon receive any sunlight when it is hidden inthe earth's shadow?" The answer is thatthe earth’sair bends” some of the sun's light onto the moon. So, even when the moon is Cclipsed, itis not completely blacked out. I just looks dull red. ‘Alunarecipse lasts much longer than a solar eclipse. This isbecause the ‘earth's shadow is very wide where the moon passes. The moon takes a Tong time to pass through. From statt to finish, a lunar eclipse lasts from three to fou: hours and sometimes longer. {A lunar eclipse can be seen from more areas of the earth than a solar eclipse. During a solar eclipse, the moon’s shadow covers only a small part of the earth, A solar eclipse can be seen only on a small part ofthe Earth, A lunar eclipee le different During 3 nar eclipse, the entire moon tsin shadow. Itcan be seen from any part ofthe earth that is Faving night at the time of the eclipse. Lunar eclipses happen more often than solar eclipses. UNDERSTANDING A LUNAR ECLIPSE Figure A shows a total funar eclipse, Sludy it Then fll in the Blanks Identity the following by letter: 1. Sun 2. Earth —— 3. Moon Moon's orbit 5. Earth's umbra 6. Earth’s penumbra Figure A During a lunar clips, the sum, earth and moon line up ina straight line with the earth in the mide. ‘There are two kinds of lunar eclipses: total and pastial Themooniots tee whens ostesinet: FY ‘A total lunar eclipse looks like this: 7. ‘The moon is in total eclipse when it isin the earth's, 8. The moon isi partial eclipse when i isin the earths ———_—_— 9. When the moon is only partly in the earth’s penumbra, he eclipse is 10, When the moon is partly in the umbra and partly in the penumbra, the eclipse is us THE MOON'S POSITION DURING AN ECLIPSE Figure G shows the moon in five different positions. What does it look Like in each position? Match ‘the postions with the “moons” below. | n B 4 ee rae iS Co @) 9 Teme Tere TerD 0 Fiww® 0 Fgue® pm Ansoer by leter. ton 1, the moon looks like 3. In position 3, the moon looks like 4, In position 4, the moon looks like ___ 5. In position 5, the moon looks like Now answer by number. 6, At which position is the moon not eclipsed at all? 7. Why is it not eclipsed? 8. At which position is the moon totally eclipsed? 93. At which positions is the moon partially eclipsed? ____ 10, Which one is partially eclipsed the most? PRUE OR FALSE In the space provided, write “true” ifthe sentence is tue. Write “alse” if the sentence is false. 1 2 3. 4 MATCHING 1. The day “The moon makes its own light. ‘The moon reflects the sun's light. During a lunar eclipse, the moon is in the earth's shadow. |. During a lunar eclipse, part of the earth is inthe moon's shadow. . During a sola eclipse, part of the earth isin the moon's shadow. . During a sola eclipse, the moon isin the earths shadow. . ‘The whole moon can be covered by the earth's shadow. 3. The whole earth can be covered by the moon's shadow. er part of a shadow is the umbra. ‘The darker part of a shadow is the penumbra [Match exch term in Column A with its description in Column B, Write the corect letter inthe ‘space provided Column A Column B 4 2 vumbra 2) lighter part of a shadow solar eclipse 'b) moon is in the earth's shadow unas eclipee ©) reflects the su’ ight penumbra 4) darker pact of a shadow moon ©) pact of the earth is in the moon's Shadow us ILL IN THE BLANK ‘Complete each statement using a term or terms from the list below. Write your ansisers in the ‘Suces provided, Same words may be used more than once. moon dull red earth ‘arth’s atmosphere does not larger predic longer disappear Feflects sun night 1. The moon ___ make its own light, The moon the sun's light 2. During a lunar eclipse, the moon passes through the shadow of the 3. During a hunar eclipse, the is between the___ and the 44. During a total lunar eclipse, the moon does not completely 5. A “totaly” eclipsed moon is not completly blacked out because the bends some light onto it. 6, An eclipsed moon fooks +7. The earth's shadow is much than the moon, 8. A tuner eclipee la than a solar eelipse. 9. When a lunar eclipse is taking place, it can be seen from any part of the earth that Is having 10, Scientists can when and where eclipses will take place. REACHING OUT 'A lunar eclipse can take place only during one moon phase. Which phase is it? Why? OO Unit Student information ‘An eclipse occurs when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another celestial body and is either partially or totally obscured by it. Ifyou walk into the shadow cast by a tree or similar object, then to an observer, you have been eclipsed by that tree That Is, the tree has blocked the sunlight that would have reached you and reflected off your body; the tree has come between you and the sun, ‘As the earth revolves around the sun and the moon about the earth, they occasionally align s0 the sunlight is blocked. When these alignments occur, an eclipse of either the sun or the moon ‘may occur. fthe moon blocks the light from the sun resulting in the total or partial disappearance of the sun as viewed from the earth, then a solar eclipse takes place. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth blocks the sun's light from reaching the maon, A solar eclipse is possible when the moon i its new moon phase, and a lunar eclipse is possible when the moon i in its full moon phase. How- lever, eclipses do not occur every time there is a new moon or a full moon, The reason for this isthe ‘moon and Earth do not revolve in the same geometric plane each month or yeat. The earth-moon orbit is approximately six degrees out of alignment with the earth-sun orbit; hence, an eclipse can only occur if these orbital planes intersect during a new moon or full moon phase. With the present understanding ofthe motion ofthe sun, Earth, and moon, the occurrences. of solar and lunar eclipses are predictable. A number of Internet websites, such as http://sunearth.

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