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?
The moon phases in position 8
What is a waning crescent?
What is a solar eclipse?
The arrangement needed for a solar eclipse.
What is the sun-moon-earth?
The name given to the second full moon during the same calendar month.
What is a blue moon?
What are the moon phases?
The numbers for the two gibbous moons
What are numbers 4 and 6?
What is a lunar eclipse?
The arrangement needed for a solar eclipse.
What is sun-earth-moon?
The name given to the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is a blood moon?
The darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse.
What is the umbra?
The moon phase in this diagram
What is a waxing crescent?
You are more likely to see this type of eclipse.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The arrangement of a first-quarter moon (drawing with the sun on the right)
What is
When the moon is in both Earth's penumbra and the umbra.
What is a partial lunar eclipse?
The decreasing illumination of the moon from full to new.
What is waning?
This moon phase as seen from Earth
What is a third quarter?
The area on Earth in a partial solar eclipse
What is the penumbra?
The arrangement of a full moon (drawing with the sun on the left)
What is
When standing in the moon's penumbra, this is what you would see.
What is a partial solar eclipse?
This takes approximately 1 month
What is the lunar cycle?
The reason we see the moon in phases
What is the sunlight reflected off the moon and the moon's orbit around Earth?
The reason we don't have lunar and solar eclipses every month.
What is the moon's orbit is tilted 5 degrees?
The arrangement of a waning gibbous (drawing with the sun on the left)
What is
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?