Eclipse Science
The celestial objects that are aligned in a solar eclipse.
What are the Earth, Moon, and Sun?
The eye protection that you must use to look at the sun.
What is Solar Viewing Glasses? WARNING SUN GLASSES DO NOT WORK!
The day and month the 2024 Total Eclipse falls on?
What is Monday, April 8?
The Beetles song that will be played most on April 8, 2024
What is Here Comes The Sun?
True or False: The Moon revolves around the Earth?
What is True?
What is a total Eclipse?
What is when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, totally blocking out the Sun.
A safe and easy way to view the sun using a box and a sheet of paper.
What is a Pinhole Projector?
The year of the last total eclipse seen in the United States?
2017
What do you call it when you fall in love on April 8?
What is a Total Eclipse of the Heart?
What is False? A total eclipse happens every 18-24 months.
This moon phase must occur for a Total Eclipse to happen.
What is a New Moon?
This is a part of the eye that can be damaged if you stare at the sun for long periods of time.
What is the Retina?
What is the approximate length of totality of this eclipse?
3 1/2 - 4 minutes
Popular boyband that wrote a song about a cowboy in space.
What is NSYNC?
True or False: It is safe to take a photo of the Eclipse with your phone or camera.
What is False? You must have a solar filter on the end of any camera or telescope in order to view the Sun.
The three types of Solar eclipses.
What are the Partial Eclipse, the Annular Eclipse and the Total Eclipse?
Only during this time can you take off your Eclipse Glasses to look at the Sun.
What is Totality? When the moon is covering 100% of the Sun (3:20-3:23 PM)
2044
Elton John released this song in 1972.
What is Rocket Man?
True or False: If you are pregnant you should not watch an eclipse.
What is False? This is a common misconception, the Eclipse will have no impact on your baby/babies.
The light from the Sun's outer atmosphere that you can only see during a Total Solar Eclipse.
What is the Corona?
Name three things you can expect that will impact your safety on the day of the Eclipse other than looking at the sun without proper eyewear.
What is Mass Gatherings, Closed streets and bridges, unsafe drivers; overloaded cell towers, weather/environmental related issues?
Name three observations you can notice during the Total Eclipse.
What is: Moon blocking our the sun; a 360 degree sunset or deep dusk; Planets like Jupiter and Venus; Diamond Ring Effect; Bailey's Beads; a noticeable drop in temperature; Eerily still, Sharpening of Shadows?
Three songs that have Sunshine in their Title.
What are Pocket Full of Sunshine; I'm Walking on Sunshine; Good day Sunshine; Steal my Sunshine; Cover me in Sunshine?
True or False: The Sun is significantly brighter during an Eclipse.
What is False? The Sun is no brighter than it normally is. A total solar eclipse is about as bright as the full moon.