Seasons
Phases of the Moon
Shadows
Eclipses
Potpourri
100
This is the Earth's degrees of tilt.
What is 23.5 degrees?
100
How much of the moon is always illuminated from space.
What is one half?
100
When the shortest shadow of the day occurs.
What is solar noon?
100
It is why we don't have eclipses every month.
What is the moon's orbital tilt?
100
It is responsible for night and day.
What is the rotation of the Earth?
200
This is the term for how far north or south you are from the equator.
What is latitude?
200
When a northern hemisphere person sees a full moon, this is what a southern hemisphere person sees.
What is a full moon?
200
These length of shadows occur at sunrise and sunset.
What are the longest shadows?
200
It is the phase of the moon during a solar eclipse.
What is a New Moon.
200
It is the movement of one object around another.
What is revolution?
300
It is necessary in addition to the Earth's tilt.
What is the Earth's revolution (or orbit).
300
This is the 7th moon phase (if New Moon is the 1st).
What is the 3rd quarter?
300
It is the Sun's path across the sky.
What is the ecliptic?
300
It is the phase of the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is a Full Moon?
300
It is the spinning of an object around its own axis.
What is rotation?
400
It is what Australians experience when it is winter in Poulsbo.
What is Summer?
400
It is the length of time to go from a New Moon to a New Moon.
What is 29-30 (1 month) days.
400
Shadows are longest this time of year.
What is Winter?
400
This eclipse produces a "ring".
What is an annular eclipse?
400
This star is a reliable indicator of latitude.
What is Polaris?
500
This is the most common misconception of why we have seasons.
What is the distance of the Earth from the Sun?
500
It is the 4th phase (if New Moon is the 1st).
What is waxing gibbous?
500
The Sun is in the Southwest of the sky. The shadows are in which direction?
What is northeast.
500
This eclipse can only be seen by a small area of Earth.
What is a total solar eclipse?
500
It is the reason why the Moon and Sun appear the same size in the sky.
What is the Moon is 400x smaller but 400x closer to the Earth?
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