Earth
Tides/Eclipses
Moon Phases
Planets
Asteroids, Comets,and Meteors
100
tilted toward from the sun
When summer occurs in the northern hemisphere?
100

What causes the rise and fall of ocean tides?

The moons gravitational pull

100
waning crescent
What is the phase of the Moon that immediately comes before the new Moon?
100
Mars
What is the Viking landers sent back pictures of the reddish-colored, barren, rocky, windswept surface of___?
100

Dirty snowball

What is the structure of a comet considered to be like a large, _, or a mass of a frozen ice and rock?

200
revolution
What is Earth's yearly orbit around the sun?
200

An extreme tidal change is called a ____________ tide and a very small tidal change ____________ tide. 

spring, neap

200
The phase of the moon when you cannot see it
What is a new Moon?
200
Jupiter
What is has colorful clouds in bands of white, red, tan, and brown?
200

solar wind

Caused by differences in temperature on the sun, this causes solar flares. 

300
winter and summer sosltices
What is when the sun's rays strike Earth at their northernmost and southernmost positions?
300

When the moon blocks out the sun it is a __________ eclipse. When the Earth blocks the suns light from the moon, it is a __________ eclipse. 

solar, lunar

300
waxing crescent
What is the phase after the new Moon
300
Mercury
What is this planet has no true atmosphere?
300
Meteorite
What is ______are pieces of rock that strike the surface of a moon or planet?
400

Why do we have seasons? 

Because the Earth is tilted on it's axis. This means that as it revolves around the sun, some parts of the Earth are tilted more toward the sun and receive more direct sunlight for longer periods of time, while other areas are tilted away and receive less direct sunlight for shorter periods of time. 

400

When we are in the full shadow of an eclipse and see a total eclipse, what is that full shadow called?

umbra

400
waning crescent
What is the phase after the full Moon?
400
Charon
What is Pluto's moon____ has a diameter equal to half of Pluto's?
400
meteors
What is pieces of rock that enter Earth's atmosphere at speed of 15 to 70 km/s and burn up called?
500
When the Earth casts a shadow on the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
500

Explain the difference between seeing a full and a partial eclipse. 

In a partial eclipse, you are in the part of Earth that is in the penumbra (partial shadow) of the object blocking the suns light. In a total eclipse, you are in the part of Earth that is in the full shadow or umbra. 
500
waxing gibbous
What is the phase just before the full Moon?
500
Earth
What is water is found as a solid, liquid, and gas on ____?
500
this is why a planet didn't form in the asteroid belt
What is Jupiter's gravity may have been too great?
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