Seasons
This occurs when a hemisphere is tilted toward the sun.
What is summer?
This lunar phase appears as a bright circle in the night sky
What is the full moon?
This term describes when light bounces off of an object, allowing you to see it.
What is reflection?
This star is found directly above the north pole in the sky
What is the North Star or Polaris?
This type of electromagnetic radiation is used to heat food quickly
What are micro waves?
The time it takes the Earth to make one orbit of the sun is known by this name.
What is a year?
This lunar phase is invisible to the eye and close to the sun in the daytime sky
What is a new moon?
This term describes when light bends as it travels from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
The earth's atmosphere mostly scatters this type of light.
What is blue?
This type of electromagnetic radiation is used to see in the dark and can be felt as heat
What are infrared waves?
This area experiences darkness for 6 months during winter in New Jersey.
What is the north pole?
This rare phenomenon only occurs during a new moon
What is a solar eclipse?
This term describes when light is not transmitted or reflected and is instead converted into heat.
What is absorption?
These shapes in the night sky were used for thousands of years to track the passage of time
What are constellations?
This type of electromagnetic radiation is used to sterilize your googles in the germicidal cabinet
What are ultraviolet waves?
Sunlight is more direct and therefore more intense during summer because of this phenomenon.
What is axial tilt or the Earth's titled axis?
This lunar phase occurs several days before or after a full moon and appears as more than half a circle
What is a gibbous moon?
These colors are known as the primary colors of light and together they can make white light.
What are red, green, and blue?
This type of gas makes up 78% of the Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
This type of electromagnetic radiation is used to transmit signals. These waves have the longest wavelengths of the entire spectrum.
What are radio waves?
The earth is actually closest to the sun during this season in this location.
What is winter in the northern hemisphere?
This lunar phase appears as a half circle of light on the right hand side and is visible in the afternoon and early evening
What is the first quarter moon?
This color bends the LEAST when passing through Earth's atmosphere, prisms, raindrops
What is red?
This planet is the 4th from the sun and can sometimes be seen in the sky from Earth
What is Mars?
This type of electromagnetic radiation is used in cancer treatment; these waves have the shortest wavelengths, highest frequencies, and are the MOST dangerous.
What are gamma waves?