Moon/ phases
Tides
Seasons
Planet positioning
Miscellaneous
100
The amount of the moon that always faces the earth and that we always see.
What is one side?
100
The time when the sun and the moon are in line. There are very strong gravitational forces.
What is spring tide?
100
The solstice when the north end of earths axis is tilted toward the sun.
What is the summer solstice?
100
The time when the line between the earth and the sun is at right angles with the line between the earth and the moon.
What is neap tide.
100
The number of times the earth rotates around its axis in a day.
What is once?
200
The two names for the 3/4 moon.
What is the waning and waxing gibbous?
200
The time when the tides are not dramatically high and low. There is the least difference between high and low tide.
What is neap tide?
200
Another name for the spring equinox.
What is vernal equanox?
200
When the positioning of the planets is: S E M (S=sun e=earth m=moon)
What is lunar eclipse?
200
The number of times the earth revolves around the sun in a year.
What is once?
300
OUT OF CATEGORY!!!: The name of the year when the calendar catches up for the 1/4 days we missed the past three years. This year has an extra day.
What is leap year?
300
The thing that causes the tides with the difference in how much it pulls on different parts of earth.
What is the moon?
300
The time when it is spring in the northern hemisphere and neither ends of the earths axis are tilted toward the sun.
What is spring equinox?
300
When the positioning of the planets is: S M E (Sun, moon, earth)
What is solar eclipse?
300
The number of days in a year and a day on the moon.
What is 27.3?
400
The name of the moon that is the opposit of the full moon.
What is new moon?
400
The tide when the moon and sun are not aligned and the gravitational forces cancel each other out.
What is neap tide?
400
The day of the winter solstice.
What is December twenty-first?
400
The degree of tilt the earth has on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
400
The name of the star that the earths axis points toward.
What is the North Star (Polaris)?
500
One of the days this December that we had a full moon.
What is December third?
500
The things that are in the ocean on both sides of the planet because of the moons gravitational force.
What are bulges?
500
The end of the axis that is tilted toward the sun when it is winter in the northern hemisphere.
What is the south end?
500
The tide that happens when the earth, moon, and sun are in a line.
What is spring tide?
500
The exact number of hours in a day on earth.
What is 23 hours and 56 minutes?
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