Because it orbits the earth. When the moon is between the earth and sun, it is back lit and appears new. Two weeks later, when the moon is on the other side of the earth and as far from the sun as it can be, it appears full from earth. As it transitions from one of these to the other and then back again, the new moon waxes to fullness then wanes to newness again.
The Earth moves around the Sun in an ellipse (for more details, do some reading on Kepler's Laws); the ellipse in this case is fairly close to a circle; the average distance to the Sun is about 150 million kilometers.
The earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit and the moon orbits the earth with the same kind of orbit. Looking down from the north pole, the earth spins in a counterclockwise direction on an imaginary line called its axis once every day.
The Moon travels around the Earth. It takes 28 days to go around this orbit. The
Earth moves around the Sun, it takes 365 days (one year) to go all the way
around. As the Earth moves around the sun it is spinning. It takes 24 hours
(one Day) to spin around on its axis ( the axis is just an imaginary line that goes
through the middle of the Earth from the North pole to the South pole, take a
look at a spinning globe in your classroom if you're not sure.) This shows what
the Earth looks like from near the Sun. The part of the Earth that is facing the
Sun is lit up, it is daytime here, but the other half of the world is facing away
from the Sun so it is in darkness. As the Earth turns on its axis different parts
turn to face the Sun and this is why we get day and night. If you were standing
on the Earth (and you probably are!) you would see a very different picture.
From here it looks as if the Sun is moving across the sky, rising in the East and
12 hours later setting in the West.
As the sun appears to move across the sky it means that the shadows also
move. The shadows appear long in the morning and evening, but at midday they
are very short. The Moon appears to move across the night sky just as the Sun
does during the day. But as well as moving across the sky the moon appears to
change its shape from one night to the next. It seems to start as a thin crescent
then get fatter and fatter until, after a couple of weeks, it is a full circle. Then it
gets thinner and thinner until it becomes a crescent shape and eventually seems
to disappear altogether!
The Moon appears to change shape because only the part of the moon facing the
Sun is lit up. As the moon moves around the Earth we can see more or less of
the bright half. The half of the Moon that is not lit up by the sun is in total dark
and we cannot see it at all. It takes 27.3 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth,
and the changing shape of the Moon repeats itself every 29.5 days.
The moon revolves around the earth, every 27.3 days. It can be in the same direction
as the sun, or directly opposite the sun, or anywhere in between. We build our clocks
to track the sun, so at the same clock-time on different days or night, the moon can
be in many different positions in the sky.
as the earth revolves around the sun,the moon revolves around the earth. sooo that means that the sun can shine light on the moon.when we see the moon in the night sky, the sun is reflecting its light onto the moon.so the parts that the sun hits is what we see in the night sky.
hope that helped?!
They don't "change places". The Earth orbits the Sun and the Moon orbits the Earth. The combination of these motions makes it appear to us, standing on the surface of the Earth (which is itself rotating), as if the Sun and Moon move in the sky. (The Moon actually does move, but much more slowly than it appears to, because the Earth spins on its axis in slightly under 24 hours, and the moon takes a bit over 27 days to go all the way around the Earth.)
because it rotates as well as earth
and sometimes it looks like different every night
it is because everynight different stars are in the back of the star that makes the moon look like changing apperance
Well to put it simply,the moon and the sun positions in correlation with the earth changes the tides in the water and on land..( Fun fact: Did you know that if the tides happen at just the right moment it can trigger a earthquake?)
The moon is on a cycle of redoing it's phases every 29.5 days. Thant is not exactly a month so things would get pushed back.
The next full moon to occur on Friday 13th will be onFriday Aug 13, 2049
Well, the heights fluctuate overtime due to the 24 hour and 50 minute movement of the moon around the Earth in a series of time. Also, of course, due to gravitational pull. But, since the moon travels the Earth an extra 50min. this has the next change the times of the days a little bit. Therefore it fluctuates everyday. For a maybe more clear answer just visit: http://coastalcare.org/educate/tides/
the equator
The moon was full on August 5, 1952.The next Full Moon occurred on September 3 of that year. (It's rareto have two full moons in the same calendar month.)
It will be out next year It will be out next year It will be out next year It will be out next year ---- It will be out in November 2009. By the way it is called New Moon.
This year
May 30 of the same year.
It is impossible to predict what the next hurricane will be for any location or if a location will be hit in any given year.
It depends on the year, but not the location. April 13, 2013, the moon was waxing crescent in Taurus.
no its not coming out next year.its coming out around bixing day this year,so yeah it is pretty close to next year no its not coming out next year.its coming out around bixing day this year,so yeah it is pretty close to next year
Every 28 and a half days a year
The calendar dates of new moon, full moon, etc. change every year because there aren't an even number of lunar cycles in a year. It's similar to how the day of the week a particular date falls on changes from year to year because there aren't an even number of weeks in a year.
it circles around the world
no
One full moon to the next. Earth is going to have two full moons in December this year, 2009. They call that a "blue moon."
The moon is on a cycle of redoing it's phases every 29.5 days. Thant is not exactly a month so things would get pushed back.