Seasons
This season occurs after Winter.
What is Spring?
The two halves of the Earth, separated by the equator.
What are Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere?
The moon's visible light at night comes from this source.
What is the Sun?
The Sun is mostly made out of this gas.
What is helium?
A pattern on Earth, where one can predict the type of weather, temperature, humidity etc.
What is a season?
During Summer in Maine, USA, this season is happening in São Paulo, Brazil.
What is Winter?
The imaginary line through the center of Earth that is locked in a permanent tilt.
What is axis?
This moon phase is happening when you cannot see the moon at all, only a dark shadow.
What is a new moon?
The Sun is also known as this type of star.
What is a yellow dwarf?
A term that translates to equal night.
What is equinox?
Which two seasons are happening when Earth is neither tilted toward or away from the Sun?
What are Spring and Fall?
This imaginary line drawn on Earth, located at 0 degrees latitude.
What is equator?
Lunar eclipses can only happen during this specific moon phase.
What is a Full Moon?
True or false: 99.9% of Earth's energy comes from the Sun.
What is true?
The longest day of the year, characterized by ~16 hours of daylight.
What is Summer solstice?
These two seasons occur when Earth is tilted toward the Sun.
What are Summer and Winter?
The direction that Earth rotates on its axis, and orbits the Sun.
What is counterclockwise or West to East?
What is the term for a growing or increasing moon, occurring after a new moon?
What is waxing?
This Polish astronomer died before his theory of heliocentrism was accepted.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The shortest day of the year, characterized by ~9 hours of daylight.
What is Winter solstice?
During October, this season is happening in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Spring?
The area located around the North Pole, characterized by long periods of daylight or nighttime.
What is the Arctic Circle?
True or false: A lunar day is 24 hours.
This dramatic phenomenon features large, bright gaseous structures that erupt thousands of kilometers high from the Sun's surface.
This event occurs when one celestial body crosses in-between two other celestial bodies.
What is an eclipse?