Size
The moon is about this fraction of Earth
What is 1/4!
What is 150 million km?
The reason for our seasons
What is Earth's tilt?
The moon's illumination as seen from space.
What is 1/2 of the moon?
The order of objects for a solar eclipse
What is Sun-moon-Earth (SME)
Earth's diameter
What is 12,756 km?
The moon's distance from Earth.
What is 384,000 km?
When the Northern Hemisphere experiences summer the Southern Hemisphere experiences
What is winter?
The phase following a waning gibbous
What is third quarter?
When a small ring of the sun is left after the moon moves in front of the sun
What is an annular eclipse
What is Venus?
The reason we have super moons.
The shortest day of the year.
What is winter solstice?
What is the moon's orbital plane at 5 degrees. They don't always get in line to make an eclipse!
During a total lunar eclipse, the moon appears to be what colors?
What are red, orange, brown and yellow. *colors vary
The reason the moon and Sun appear the same size.
What are size and distance from Earth. The moon is 400 times smaller, but 400 times closer than the sun so they appear the same size.
In order to scale the sun-Earth-moon system with a marble, you would need to place the sun how many METERS away from the marble representing Earth?
What is 120 meters?
March 21st and September 21st
What are equinoxes?
What is our perspective as the moon orbit's Earth?
This is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere seen during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona
The second largest planet in our solar system.
What is Saturn
The amount of time it took New Horizons to pass the moon on its way to Pluto.
What is 9 hours?
Earth's tilt always points towards this object.
What is Polaris (North Star)?
Neil Armstrong said this when he stepped on the moon for the first time.
What is, "That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
The third part of a shadow when the moon is further away from Earth.
What is the antumbra