Safety
History
Facts
Science
Mythology
100
These types of devices are unsafe to use to view an eclipse.
What is binoculars, telescopes, glasses, sunglasses, smoked glass, polarizing filters, or exposed color film
100
This year was the last time a total solar eclipse was viewed from the United States.
What is 1972
100
This device can be made at home to safely view an eclipse.
What is a pinhole projector
100
This biological process halts during an eclipse.
What is photosynthesis
100
These ancient peoples believed that eclipses occurred when the sun or moon was swallowed by a wolf.
What is the ancient Vikings
200
This type of glass is acceptable for viewing an eclipse.
What is number 14 welder's glass or darker.
200
This game was popular the last time a total solar eclipse was viewed from the United States.
What is pong
200
This aura of plasma can be seen around the moon during a total solar eclipse.
What is a corona
200
During an eclipse, the moon comes across the sky in this direction.
What is west to east, but the Earth's rotation causes an illusion so that it is seen as east to west
200
The ancient Greeks had a myth about these two groups fighting in 585 B.C.
What is the Medes and Lydians in Anatolia
300
This is why it is dangerous to look at the sun.
What is UV rays, as they will damage the eye
300
This structure was built at Indiana University in 1898.
What is the observatory and transit house
300
This kind of shadow occurs when none of the sun's light reaches the moon.
What is an umbral shadow
300
During an eclipse, the stars in the vicinity of the sun will appear slightly shifted from their original positions because of this theory.
What is the theory of relativity (the deflection of light due to the gravitational field of the Sun)
300
This group saw eclipses to be a bad omen too dark to be written about.
What is the ancient Egyptians
400
It is dangerous to observe the sun because it damages this part of the eye.
What is the retina of the eye
400
These three astronomers visited Kirkwood Observatory at Indiana University in 1947.
What is James Cuffey, Frank K. Edmondson, and Lawrence H. Aller
400
During this kind of eclipse, the moon passes through the Earth's umbral shadow, and it appears red-orange in color.
What is a total lunar eclipse
400
This element was discovered during the total solar eclipse in August of 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen (1824-1907).
What is helium
400
The Vikings and Chinese would do this during an eclipse.
What is make noise to bring the sun back
500
Safety glasses protect eyes from these kinds of lights.
What is visible and non-visible (such as ultraviolet and infrared)
500
By this year, Chinese astronomers were able to predict solar eclipses by analyzing the motion of the moon.
What is CE 206
500
The next solar eclipse that will be viewed in the United States will be on this date.
What is Monday, April 8, 2024
500
In 2003, Bill Lee observed that eclipses can do this.
What is change direction
500
The ancient Mayans referred to eclipses as this phrase, which translates to 'to eat the sun.'
What is chi' ibal kin
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