Seasons
Phases of the Moon
Shadows
Eclipses
Potpourri
100
This is the Earth's degrees of tilt.
What is 23.5 degrees?
100
How much of the moon is always illuminated from space.
What is one-half or 1/2?
100
When the shortest shadow of the day occurs.
What is solar noon, or high noon?
100
It is why we don't have eclipses every month.
What is the moon's 5 degrees orbital tilt?
100
It is responsible for night and day.
What is the rotation of the Earth?
200
This is the term for the two times during the year when sunlight illuminates the equator from directly overhead.
What is equinox?
200
When a northern hemisphere person sees a full moon, this is what a southern hemisphere person sees.
What is a full moon?
200
These length of shadows occur at sunrise and sunset.
What are the longest shadows?
200
It is the phase of the moon during a solar eclipse.
What is a New Moon.
200
It is the movement of one object around another.
What is revolution?
300
It is necessary in addition to the Earth's tilt.
What is the Earth's revolution (or orbit).
300
This is the next moon phase after a New Moon.
What is a waxing crescent?
300
It is the term for "almost shadow".
What is the penumbra?
300
It is the phase of the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is a Full Moon?
300
The darkest part of a shadow.
What is umbra?
400
It is what Australians experience when it is winter in Northport.
What is Summer?
400
It is the length of time to go from a New Moon back to a New Moon.
What is 4 weeks (1 month, or 29.5 days).
400
Shadows are longest this time of year.
What is Winter?
400
This area of the sun can only be seen during a solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
400
This star is a reliable indicator of direction.
What is Polaris, or north star?
500
This is the most common misconception of why we have seasons.
What is the distance of the Earth from the Sun?
500
These are the phases that appear as "half moons".
What are first and last quarters?
500
The sun is in the southern sky causing shadows in this direction.
What is northern.
500
This eclipse can only be seen by a small area of Earth.
What is a total solar eclipse?
500
It is the reason why the Moon and Sun appear the same size in the sky.
What is the Moon is 400x smaller but 400x closer to the Earth?
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