Seasons
Tides
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Potpourri
100
This is the MAIN reason for seasons on Earth.
What is the TILT of Earth's axis?
100
This is the number of high tides that 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
A moon phase in which no light is reflecting from the moon surface facing Earth.
What is a NEW MOON?
100
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
200
The approximate degree of Earth's tilt.
What is 23.5 degrees?
200
This is the MAIN reason for the cause of the tides.
What is Moon's gravitational pull on Earth.
200
In a lunar eclipse, this is what is casting the shadow.
What is the Earth?
200
Which comes first...Waxing or Waning?
What is Waxing?
200
What is known as a "dirty snowball"?
What is a comet?
300
The two months in which Equinoxes occur.
What is March & September?
300
This type of tide 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 blocked from Earth's view.
What is a SOLAR ECLIPSE?
300
When light is coming onto the moon and shaped like a "crescent".
What is a WAXING Crescent?
300
The number of stars in our solar system.
What is ONE!!
400
The two months in which solstices occur.
What is December and June?
400
The phases of the Moon when a Spring Tide occurs.
What is Full and New moons?
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
This side of the moon is lit in a 1st quarter moon.
What is the right side?
400
The shape of our galaxy.
What is a spiral?
500
This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is June 21 (summer solstice)
500
The phases of the Moon in which Neap Tides occur.
What are 1st and 3rd Quarter?
500
This is the darkest part of the eclipse shadow.
What is the UMBRA?
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 distance between Earth and the Sun.
What is 1 AU (astronomical unit) or 150,000,000 km?
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