Earth
Eclipse
Moon
Seasons
Space
100
Time it takes the Earth to rotate once.
What is a day (24 hours)?
100
Occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
Moon phase in which none of the lighted surface of the Moon can be seen.
What is a New Moon?
100
This causes day and night.
What is the Earth's rotation on its axis?
100
Large hunks of rock floating in space.
What are asteroids?
200
Time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun once.
What is a year (365 days)?
200
The darkest part of a shadow.
What is an umbra?
200
Waning moon phase in which one half of the lighted side of the Moon is seen.
What is the first quarter moon?
200
When the Sun's rays strike Earth at their northernmost and southernmost positions.
What are solstices?
200
Smaller pieces of rock from old comets.
What are meteroids?
300
Imaginary line running around Earth between the North and South Poles.
What is equator?
300
Aristotle saw this on moon that led him to hypothesize the Earth was round.
What was Earth's curved shadow?
300
dark-colored, flat regions on the Moon.
What are maria?
300
When the Sun's rays strike Earth directly at the equator.
What is an equinox?
300
Pieces of rock that strike Earth's surface.
What are meteorites?
400
round, three dimensional object and model of the Earth.
What is sphere?
400
Occurs when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
400
The phase of the Moon that immediately precedes the new Moon.
What is a waning crescent?
400
Occurs on December 21 or 22 in the northern hemisphere.
What is the winter solstice?
400
Small pieces of rock that burn up in the atmosphere.
What are meteors?
500
The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun.
What is an ellipse?
500
the type of eclipse more people witness.
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
The amount of time of the MOon's revolution and rotation.
What is 27.3 days?
500
These are the reasons for the seasons.
What are the Earth's tilt on its axis and revolution around the sun?
500
Chunks of ice and rock that fly through space in orbit around the sun.
What are comets?
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