Eclipses are just nature's dimmer switch!
What is the order of the celestial bodies in a solar eclipse?
Sun => Moon => Earth
The word that indicates that light is GROWING or GETTING BIGGER
What is waxing?
The number of days in a complete lunar cycle.
About 29 days
What is the number of days between each of the main moon phases?
About 7 days
When does a lunar eclipse happen?
(Include both the moon phase and time of day)
At night, during a full moon.
What determines if you will experience an annular eclipse or a total eclipse?
How far away the moon is.
The word that indicates that light is SHRINKING or GETTING SMALLER
What is waning?
Which direction does the moon phase diagram rotate?
Counter-clockwise.
If third quarter is on August 16th, this is the moon phase on August 9th.
What is a full moon?
When does a solar eclipse happen?
(include both phase and time of day)
During the day of a new moon phase.
Which eclipse can be seen by half the world at the same time?
Lunar eclipse.
The shape made by the phase when it is 1-49% illuminated
The phase that is always positioned between the sun and Earth.
New moon.
The amount of time that passes from a waxing crescent to a waning crescent.
What is 3 weeks?
Which object never changes position in any eclipse diagram?
The Sun (because its the source of light that other objects will block)
What must you be in order to experience a total solar eclipse?
The umbra.
What shape is made when the moon phase is 51-99% illuminated?
Gibbous.
What is the reason why we can see the moon at night?
It is the reflected sunlight off the surface of the moon.
If third quarter is on August 16th, the moon phase on August 27th.
What is waxing crescent?
What is the penumbra?
DD: What would you observe if you were in the moon's penumbra?
The lighter shadow cast by an object.
DD: a partial eclipse.
Why don't we have eclipses every month?
DD: What is the amount of the tilt?
What is the moon's entire orbit is tilted?
DD: about 5 degrees.
The name for the entire sequence of moon phases?
The lunar cycle
Why do we only see one side of the moon from Earth?
Daily Double: What is the term for this?
The moon revolves and rotates at the same rate.
DD: synchronous rotation
If a third-quarter moon is on October 16th, what is the date in October for a first-quarter moon?
What is October 2nd?
What are you observing if you are looking at "The ring of fire"
An annular eclipse.