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What is the line that separates the light and dark sides of the moon?
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The terminator.
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What is the line that separates the light section and the dark sections on the earth and the moon?
The terminator
What is the terminator on the Moon and what causes it?
The terminator is the line that separates "day" and "night" (the light and dark part of the Moon). It is interesting to note that close to the terminator, you can see more details, because of the shadows cast by mountains and craters.
What are the dark and light parts of the moon?
The abrupt change (line) between light and dark on the moon is called the terminator. The shadow on the moon is there because the sun only lights up half of the moon (which is a sphere) at a time. Also, people on earth always see the same side of the moon. This is because the moon rotates at the same rate as it orbits (kinda tricky). This phenomenon is called tidal locking. The side of the moon we never see interestingly enough has the biggest impact crater in our solar system. So basically as the moon revolves around the earth and the terminator moves across the moon, more and more of the bright part is 'clipped away' until we eventually end up with a moon that looks totally black. This happens at the end of every month and is called the new moon. Here is the link to the wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase
What is the line called that separates the sky from the ground in artwork?
The Horizon line
What is the line between the light and dark parts of the moon?
It's the line where part of the moon doesn't light the night. and, if you look, that line serves a purpose of telling what kind of moon night it is without looking at a calendar.
What is the line that separates the light section and the dark sections on the earth and the moon?
The terminator
What is the terminator on the Moon and what causes it?
The terminator is the line that separates "day" and "night" (the light and dark part of the Moon). It is interesting to note that close to the terminator, you can see more details, because of the shadows cast by mountains and craters.
What does the red color stand for in the periodic table?
The red line separates the metals from nonmetals.Semimetals are on both sides.
Continuous spectrum with dark lines where light is absorbed?
dark-line spectrum...
What is the line between the light and dark parts of the is called the?
The line is called the terminator
What is a line that separates two places?
A line that separates two places is a boundary line.
What are the dark and light parts of the moon?
The abrupt change (line) between light and dark on the moon is called the terminator. The shadow on the moon is there because the sun only lights up half of the moon (which is a sphere) at a time. Also, people on earth always see the same side of the moon. This is because the moon rotates at the same rate as it orbits (kinda tricky). This phenomenon is called tidal locking. The side of the moon we never see interestingly enough has the biggest impact crater in our solar system. So basically as the moon revolves around the earth and the terminator moves across the moon, more and more of the bright part is 'clipped away' until we eventually end up with a moon that looks totally black. This happens at the end of every month and is called the new moon. Here is the link to the wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase
What is the line that separates day and night?
The line that separates the day and night is called the "TERMINATOR". it is a grey moving line
What do you call the line that separates the parts of a fraction?
It is the solidus line that separates the numerator from the denominator in a fraction
What is the name of line that separates northern?
The line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres is called the equator.
The line between the light and dark parts of the Moon is called the what?
terminator
What is the name of the line between the light and dark parts if the moon?
Terminator
