Sun
Seasons
Moon
Moon Phases
Vocabulary
100
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a star?
100
How the sun shines of the earth in the winter.
What is indirectly?
100
These are deep valleys on the moon.
What are rilles?
100
This takes 29.5 days to be completed.
What is the lunar cycle?
100
The longest day of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
200
This occurs when the moon moves between the sun and earth, blocking the sun's light.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
This is the tilt of the earth's axis.
What is 23.5 degrees.
200
These are low flat places on the moon.
What is maria?
200
This is when light is decreasing on the moon.
What is waning?
200
These cause the aurora.
What are the Van Allen Radiation Belts?
300
The sun rises in this direction.
What is east?
300
The time of year when the sun appears low in the sky.
What is winter?
300
This is when the moon is in the shadow of the earth.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
This is when the moon is less that half lit.
What is a crescent?
300
The direct darkest part of a shadow.
What is the umbra?
400
This is the part of the sun that we see during a solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
400
The star that the tilt of the earth points to.
What is Polaris?
400
This is how long the moon takes to orbit the earth.
What is 27.3 days?
400
This is the line between the dark and light parts of the moon.
What is the terminator?
400
When an object is at it's furthest point from the earth during its orbit.
What is Apogee?
500
This is how the suns rays hit the earth in the summer.
What is directly?
500
The two reasons we have seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth and earth rotating the sun?
500
These are the more extreme tides that occur during the new and full moon phase.
What are spring tides?
500
These are the four main phases of the moon.
What is new moon, first quarter, full moon, and third quarter.
500
The three space labs that have orbited earth?
What is Mir, Skylab, ISS?
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