Solar Eclipses
What causes a solar eclipse?
What is the Moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun?
What causes the seasons to change on Earth?
What is the tilt of Earth's axis as it orbits the Sun?
Which moon phase occurs when the Moon is completely illuminated?
What is a Full Moon?
Which unit would you use to measure the length of a pencil?
What is centimeters?
What causes the tides on Earth?
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun?
Which eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon?
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is summer?
What phase comes after the waxing crescent?
What is the First Quarter?
How many millimeters are in one centimeter?
What is 10?
How many high tides usually occur in a 24-hour period?
What is 2?
During a solar eclipse, which part of the Sun is visible?
What is the Sun's corona?
What is the main reason summer is warmer than winter in a hemisphere?
What is the hemisphere receives more direct sunlight?
Which phase of the Moon occurs when it is positioned between the Earth and the Sun?
What is the New Moon?
What is the basic unit of mass in the metric system?
What is the gram?
What type of tide occurs when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are in a straight line?
What is a spring tide?
hat type of eclipse occurs when only part of the Moon passes through Earth’s shadow?
What is a partial lunar eclipse?
On which day does the Northern Hemisphere experience the longest day of the year?
What is the summer solstice?
What is the phase of the moon called when more than half is illuminated but it is not full?
What is the waxing gibbous moon?
In an experiment, what is the variable that is changed on purpose?
What is the independent variable?
What type of tide occurs when the Moon and Sun are at right angles to Earth?
What is a neap tide?
What is the darkest part of a shadow during an eclipse called?
What is the umbra?
What term describes when day and night are of equal length?
What is the equinox?
What moon phase comes before a new moon?
What is the waning crescent?
What is the first step in the scientific method?
What is identifying a problem or asking a question?
During a full moon, how does the alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun affect the tides?
What is it creates spring tides?