General Space Stuff
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Seasons
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100
This is how long it takes for the Earth to make one full revolution.
What is 365 days or 365.25 days?
100
Name two types of eclipses.
What are solar and lunar?
100
This is about how long it takes the moon to revolve around the Earth.
What is about a month?
100
This is what causes the seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100
According to the diagram, this is the direction the Earth revolves around the sun.
What is counterclockwise?
200
This is the largest star in our solar system.
What is the sun?
200
Draw a model of the celestial bodies and how they align to create a solar eclipse.
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200
Identify this moon phase.
What is a waning gibbous?
200
This is the letter position that best shows where an observer in Nebraska would experience the first day of winter.
What is B?
200
This is the phase of the moon as seen from the X.
What is a full moon?
300
For an observer in Nebraska, the Sun appears to move across the sky in this general path.
What is from east to west?
300
The diagram below represents this natural event in our solar system. 
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
This is how much of the moon is illuminated by the sun during a crescent moon.
What is 50% or half?
300
This is the length of time that it would take to move from position A to position B.
What is 3 months?
300
This is the model that best represents the relative sizes of celestial objects from largest to smallest.
What is B?
400
Chose the response that best explains why stars look like points of light when observed from Earth.
Stars are much smaller in size compared to Earth.
Stars have less gravitational attraction.
Earth is older than the stars.
Earth is a great distance from those stars.
What is Earth is a great distance from those stars?
400
Identify the moon phase and position that could result in a solar eclipse.
What is position 1 and a new moon.
400
Moon phases are caused by this.
What is the revolution of the moon around the Earth?
400
Based on the angle of the Sun's path, this is the season we would be experiencing.
What is spring?
400
This is the force represented by X.
What is gravity?
500
The photograph below shows an object in space that has an icy core with a tail of gas and dust extending for millions of kilometers. Name this object.
What is a comet?
500
This is the name of the inner shadow created during a solar eclipse.
What is an umbra?
500
According to the diagram, this is the phase of the Moon that would be viewed from Earth.
What is a full moon?
500
This is the model that best represents the tilt of Earth's axis in December in the Northern hemisphere.
What is 2?
500
This is one cause of high and low tides.
What is the moon's gravitational pull?