Moon Phases
There are 8 of these.
How many phases of the moon are there in total?
There are currently 8 of these
There are how many planets, without including Pluto.
These include Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
What are the seasons?
This is the predictable path that a celestial body follows as it revolves around another object
What is an orbit?
This is the category into which Pluto now fits.
What is a dwarf-planet?
When you see the complete face of the moon, it's called this.
What is a "Full Moon"?
This is the third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
This is the tilt of the Earth.
What causes the seasons?
This is a rocky or metallic mass that orbits the Sun, often found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
This is the Milky Way.
What is the name of our Galaxy?
This word means "to be increasing in strength or intensity."
What does waxing mean?
These are known as the Terrestrial planets.
What is the group name for Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
The angle is 23 1/2 degrees.
What is the angle at which the Earth is tilted?
This word, which as the same root word as lunacy and lunatic means "moon".
What is geocentric?
This is the idea that the Sun and other planets all revolved around the Earth.
What is geocentric?
This is the phase when the left half of the face of the moon is illuminated
What is the Third Quarter?
In addition to being called Jovian, this is the general category given the outside planets.
What are the Gas Giants?
These are Equinoxes.
What is the name of the two times each year when the hours of daylight and night are equal?
These are the two factors that affect gravity.
What are distance and mass?
This is the idea that the Earth and other planets all revolve around the Sun. That the Sun is the center of the Solar System.
What is heliocentric?
This phase arrives approximately 2 weeks after a full moon
What is a new moon?
The sun is comprised of approximately 75% of this element.
What is hydrogen?
This is December 21.
On or around what date does the Winter Solstice occur?
This are the Solstices.
What are the longest and shortest days of the year?
This is the astronomer that suggested that the Earth and other planets actually revolved around the Sun
Who was Copernicus?