Seasons
Tides
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Other Stuff
100
What is the MAIN reason for season on Earth?
What is the TILT of Earth's axis?
100
How many high tides occur in a 24 hour time period?
What is 2?
100
This occurs when a shadow makes the Sun or the Moon seem to grow dark.
What is an ECLIPSE?
100
This event occurs once per month.
What is the cycle of the moon?
100
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
200
What is the degree of Earth's axial tilt?
What is 23.5 degrees?
200
What is the MAIN reason for the cause of the tides?
What is Moon's gravitational pull on Earth.
200
This is the darkest part of the eclipse shadow.
What is the UMBRA?
200
Which comes first...Waxing or Waning?
What is Waxing?
200
This comet appears once every 75-76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
300
What two months do Equinox's occur?
What is March & September?
300
Which type of tides have the GREATEST tidal range?
What are Spring Tides?
300
This occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in a direct line with each other, so that the Sun is completely blocked from Earth's view.
What is a SOLAR ECLIPSE?
300
Waxing means the moon is doing this.
What is getting bigger?
300
Mereoroids are found in space, meteors are moving through the atmosphere and meteorites and be found here.
Where is ON THE GROUND!
400
What two months do Solstices occur?
What is December and June?
400
When the moon is no longer waxing and is as large has it gets it is called this.
What is Full moon?
400
This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and Moon, such that Earth blocks the Sun's light from directly striking the Moon.
What is a LUNAR ECLIPSE?
400
When we cannot find the moon in the sky, it is most likely this type of moon.
What is a New Moon?
400
A group of stars the create an image is called this.
What is a constillation?
500
On what date does the Sun shine directly overhead over the Tropic of Cancer and creates the longest day of the year?
What is June 21st (summer solstice)
500
When the moon is appearing to get smaller it is known as
What is waning?
500
Describe what an annular eclipse looks like from Earth.
What is a RING around the Sun???
500
List the Moon phases in order from New to New.
What is New, Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon?
500
The 3 major types of galaxies are
What are spiral, irregular, and elliptical?
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