Moon Phases
When the moon looks completely dark from Earth, it is in this phase.
What is a new moon?
During a solar eclipse, the ______ passes between the Sun and the ________ and blocks sunlight from reaching it.
What is the moon and Earth?
Amount of Earth's axis tilt.
What is 23.5 degrees?
This is the name of the day in the year when the hemisphere is tilted most directly toward the Sun.
The Sun shines directly on the equator.
What is the equinox?
This is the word for when the moon is gradually getting smaller.
Waning
A solar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.
What is new moon?
If the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, this is the season in Australia.
What is summer?
The moon is always lit this much by the Sun.
What is 50%.
The season that results from the Northern Hemisphere being tilted away from the Sun?
What is winter?
It takes about this many days for the moon to go through all of its phases, from one new moon to the next.
What is 29.5 days?
A lunar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.
What is new mooon?
This would happen if the Earth had no tilt.
What is Earth would have no seasons?
The type of moon that occurs just before and after the full moon.
What is gibbous moon?
When the lit part of the moon we can see is growing larger each night, the moon is described by this term.
What is waxing?
This is the name for the darkest part of a shadow, where people on Earth see a total solar eclipse.
What is umbra?
A city has about 15 hours of daylight on June 21 and about 9 hours on December 21. This tells you the city is in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
This amount of people that can see a total lunar eclipse when it occurs.
What is anyone experiencing night?
What is light bending around Earth during a lunar eclipse?
The moon phase when the moon is between the Earth and the Sun.
New Moon
This is the reason that we don't have eclipses every month.
What is the moon's orbit is tilted 5 degrees from Earth's.
At noon, the sun’s angle in Atlanta is about 80° in June and about 33° in December. A higher sun angle means sunlight is this, which heats up the area more.
What is at more direct ?
This is an eclipse where the moon blocks out all but a small ring of the Sun.
What is an annular eclipse?
What happens because we see different portion of the lit side of the moon depending on its position in its orbit around Earth?