During a full moon how are the sun the moon and earth aligned?

Answer 1

Spring tides, which are higher than normal, occur when the Sun, Moon and Earth are lined up close to being in a straight line. This is also when you see full moons and new moons.

When the Moon is at the first or third quarters (when the Moon is half-way lit up), we have "neap" tides which are lower than average.

Answer 2

During a full moon, the sun, earth, and moon are aligned in a nearly straight line, with the earth in between. The sun illuminates the side of the moon facing away from the earth, making it appear fully illuminated from our perspective on Earth.

Answer 3

The Earth orbits the Sun at a distance of about 152,097,701 km. It takes the Earth 1 year to make one orbit of the Sun.
The Moon orbits the Earth at a distance of about 405,696 km. It takes the Moon 27 days 7 hours and 43.1 min. to orbit the Earth.
Thus as the Moon is going round the Earth at some points in the orbit it is between the Earth and the Sun and at other points in its Orbit the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun (this is when we can see the Moon at night).

Answer 4

When the Sun, Earth and Moon all line up exactly, we have lunar eclipse - when the Earth's shadow darkens the Moon.

When the Sun, Moon and Earth all line up in THAT order, exactly, we have a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow darkens a small area on the Earth.

Answer 5

-- During either eclipse, the centers of all three bodies are almost exactly on the same line.

-- For a lunar eclipse, the Earth is the one in the 'middle', so the moon is in its shadow.

-- For a solar eclipse, the moon is the one in the 'middle', so the tip of its shadow falls

on the Earth.

Answer 6

A new moon is when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are nearly in line, with the Moon in between.

They are rarely completely in line, because the Moon's orbit is tilted 5.14 degrees

with respect to the plane of the ecliptic, but when they do line up, you have a solar

eclipse at the time of New Moon, or a lunar one at the time of Full Moon.

Answer 7

• All life in the universe that we know of, occurs there.
• The crust is the coldest layer of all the layers of Earth.
• The crust makes up less than 1% of the Earth's mass.
• On average, it's about 27 miles thick, but can range from 2-70 miles.
• The crust is composed of solid, brittle, igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock.
• The main mineral group making up the rock of the crust are silicates, which include feldspars, micas, and quartz.
• The crust is the outermost chemical layer of the Earth, composed of two types: oceanic crust and continental crust.
• Oceanic crust has a density of 3 grams per cubic centimeter; continental crust averages 2.7 grams per cubic centimeter. The difference lies in the rock which composes each type of crust. Oceanic crust is mainly basalt and continental crust is more like granite. Basalt is more dense (heavier) than granite.
• The majority of the crust is oceanic crust, basaltic in nature.
• The crust is attached to the uppermost rigid mantle, which together is referred to as the lithosphere.
• The temperature of Earth's crust can range from -70 degrees Fahrenheit to +750 degrees Fahrenheit depending on location and depth. Higher temperatures would be recorded in regions of crustal melting from magmatic intrusions. Technically, regions heated by magmatic intrusions are still crustal rock, and could reach well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

1. The earth outermost surface is called crust.

2.The crust is about 25m. thick beneath the continents.

3.The crust is relatively light and brittle.

4.Most earthquakes occur within in the crust.

Crust is the uppermost layer of earth. the crust is solid rock and mainly consists of ferromagnesium silicates.

In the ocean, earths crust is 5-10 miles deep and on land its 5-25 miles before you reach the earths mantle.

Thinnest layer.

1600 degrees Fahrenheit.

1. the most important thing is the volcano

2. the second thing is how the crust was created

3.where does the crust come from underground or on top of ground.

4.when volcanoes erupt when the crust goes in the air with everything else.

Answer 8

It depends on how you describe the size; you can say volume, mass, surface area, circumference or radius. A measure of volume condiders three dimensions, and a radius one dimension, so the volume will go up by a factor of eight when you double the radius.

If we just use radius, then the Moons mean radius is 1737 km (0.273 of Earths), the Earth is 6378 km and the suns radius is around 695500 km or 109 times that of Earths.

When considering volumes though, the Suns volume is 1.3 million times that of the Earths.

Answer 9

If Sun and Earth are alligned in a line, then the Moon would be slightly above or below that line in the dark side of Earth, such that one complete half of moon gets light from Sun and the same is visible to Earth's night side

Answer 10

During the new moon the Moon is between the Earth an the Sun. Hence only the side that cannot be seen from Earth is illuminated, making the moon appear dark. During the full moon the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon so sunlight falls on the side of the moon facing the Earth, making it appear bright.