Earth Moon Diagram. The moon gets lit up with the reflected sun rays. Middle school grades 6 8 middle school middle school.
The center ring shows the moon as it revolves around the earth as seen from above the north pole. The moon gets lit up with the reflected sun rays. At the same time the moon is revolving around the earth.
Now let the diagram illustrate the seconds dial of a clock and it can be shovn that if the disk did not rotate as well as revolve it would break away from the hand.
This ratio of 367 is actually quite small compared to the ratio of the sizes of other planets and their moons in our solar system. We describe how the moon looks with the eight moon phases or shapes. The center ring shows the moon as it revolves around the earth as seen from above the north pole. The large parallel arrows represent the direction of light incident from the sun.