Sun
Earth
Moon
Vocabulary
Natural Phenomena
100
During summer, this is how sunlight hits the Earth's surface.
What is directly?
100
The shape of the Earth.
What is a sphere?
100
The Lunar Cycle has this many phases.
What are eight?
100
This is what the Earth does as it spins on its axis.
What is rotate?
100
When a location on Earth is facing the Sun, it will be __________.
What is day?
200
This word comes from the Latin word "sol" which means "sun".
What is "solar"?
200
It takes this long for the Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 1 day (24-hours)?
200
This word comes from the Latin word "luna" meaning "moon".
What is lunar?
200
This is what the Earth does as it orbits the Sun.
What is revolve?
200
When a location on Earth is facing away from the Sun, it experiences ____________.
What is night?
300
When the sun's rays are blocked by the moon's shadow.
What is a solar eclipse?
300
It takes this long for Earth to complete one full revolution.
What is one year (365 days)?
300
The Moon takes this long to revolve around the Earth
What is approximately one month (29.5 days)?
300
This word comes from the word "moon" and approximately lines up with the Lunar Cycle.
What is "month"?
300
This location on the globe receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the equator?
400
The hours of sunlight an area receives follows a predictable pattern that follows these.
What are the 4 seasons?
400
The Earth does this to the sun.
What is orbits?
400
The Lunar Cycle appears to happen because this changes about the solar energy that reflects off the Moon.
What are the angles of the solar energy/sunlight?
400
The adjective used when describing a (seemingly) shrinking moon.
What is waning?
400
These are caused by the tilt of the Earth and direction of the Earth's tilt relative to the Sun.
What are the 4 seasons?
500
The direction the sun appears to rise in each morning.
What is from the East?
500
The exact tilt of the Earth's axis to the nearest tenth.
What is 23.5 degrees?
500
The name of this Moon phase.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
500
The name of the center shadow during a solar eclipse.
What is the umbra?
500
This happens during a full moon when the Earth blocks the Sun's rays from reaching the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?