Vocabulary
Moon Phases
Eclipses
Earth-Moon-Sun
Challenge
100

Complete or partial hiding of the sun caused by the moon's passing between the sun and the earth; a darkening of the moon caused by its entering the shadow of the earth

What is an eclipse?

100

The moon phases in position 8

What is a waning crescent?

100

What is a solar eclipse?

100

The arrangement needed for a solar eclipse.

What is the sun-moon-earth?

100

The name given to the second full moon during the same calendar month.

What is a blue moon?

200
The changing appearance of the moon as seen from earth

What are the moon phases?

200

The numbers for the two gibbous moons

What are numbers 4 and 6?

200

What is a lunar eclipse?

200

The arrangement needed for a solar eclipse.

What is sun-earth-moon?

200

The name given to the moon during a lunar eclipse.

What is a blood moon?

300

The darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse.

What is the umbra?

300

The moon phase in this diagram

What is a waxing crescent?

300

You are more likely to see this type of eclipse.

What is a lunar eclipse?

300

The arrangement of a first-quarter moon (drawing with the sun on the right)

What is

300

When the moon is in both Earth's penumbra and the umbra.

What is a partial lunar eclipse?

400

The decreasing illumination of the moon from full to new.

What is waning?

400

This moon phase as seen from Earth

What is a third quarter?

400

The area on Earth in a partial solar eclipse

What is the penumbra?

400

The arrangement of a full moon (drawing with the sun on the left)

What is 

400

When standing in the moon's penumbra, this is what you would see.

What is a partial solar eclipse?

500

This takes approximately 1 month

What is the lunar cycle?

500

The reason we see the moon in phases

What is the sunlight reflected off the moon and the moon's orbit around Earth?

500

The reason we don't have lunar and solar eclipses every month.

What is the moon's orbit is tilted 5 degrees?

500

The arrangement of a waning gibbous (drawing with the sun on the left)

What is 

500

The reason the moon looks red during a lunar eclipse.

What is because Earth's atmosphere blocks the blue and green light and only the red light waves make it through?

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