Moon Phases
During this phase the moon is unseen.
What is the new moon?
These are the names of the inner four planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This occurs when the shadow of the moon falls on Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This what we call the top half of the planet.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Scientists use this to measure the distances between galaxies in the universe?
What is a light year?
During this moon phase the moon is half visible and the right half is lit up.
What is the the 1st quarter moon?
These are the outer four planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is between the sun and the Earth during a solar eclipse.
What is the moon?
This is what we call a part of the year with a specific weather pattern and daylight hours.
What is a season?
Scientists use this to measure distances inside our solar system.
What is an Astronomical Unit (AU)?
During this moon phase is when the right 2/3 of the moon is lit up.
What is waxing gibbous?
These two factors impact the orbit of a planet.
A solar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.
What is the new moon phase?
This is what we call the spinning of an object on its axis.
What is rotation?
These four planets have the greatest mass of the planets in our solar system.
What are the outer four planets?
During this moon phase 1/3 of the right side of the moon is lit up.
What is waxing crescent?
This determines how much gravity a planet or a star has.
What is mass?
This occurs when the shadow of the Earth falls on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This is what we call an object's orbital motion around another object.
What is a revolution?
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
During this moon phase the left 2/3 are lit up.
What is a waning gibbous?
This is the theory of how the solar system formed from the particles in space after the big bang.
What is nebular theory?
This planet is between the sun and the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is the Earth?
The different seasons are caused by this.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
This planet has the most mass of all the planets in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?