Earth's Seasons
What is the imaginary line the Earth rotates around?
What is the axis.
The phase of the Moon when it is fully illuminated.
What is a Full Moon
What are the two types of eclipses?
What is a lunar and solar eclipse
What degree is Earth's axis tilted at?
23.5 degrees
What is the reason the Earth experiences seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt.
The number of days it takes for the Moon to complete one full cycle.
What is 29.5 days
The phase of the Moon required for a solar eclipse.
What is a New Moon
This event occurs twice a year when day and night are approximately equal in length.
What is an equinox
At which location on Earth is it the same season all year?
What is the equator.
The lunar phase following a New Moon.
What is a Waxing Crescent
The phase of the Moon required for a Lunar eclipse.
What is a Full Moon.
Which celestial body is creating a shadow in a lunar eclipse?
What is the Earth
What does Earth's rotation around the Sun cause?
What is day and night.
What is a Waning Gibbous.
The darkest, inner part of an eclipse shadow.
What is the umbra.
Which celestial body is creating a shadow in a solar eclipse?
What is the Moon.
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, this type of sunlight is hitting the Northern Hemisphere.
What is indirect sunlight
The phase of the Moon when it appears half-lit and is DECREASING in light.
What is the third/last quarter
The lighter, outer park of an eclipse shadow.
What is the penumbra.
How much of the Moon is always illuminated by the Sun?
What is half of the Moon.