Day/Night
Phases of the Moon
Seasonal Change
The Solar System
Misc.
100
Light falls on half of the spinning Earth and the other half is dark.
What is day and night
100
The Moon lies directly between Earth and the Sun; it is not visible, as the Sun’s light is too brilliant.
What is a new moon?
100
Days become longer.
What is spring?
100
An Acronym for the order of the planets
What is (answers may vary) EX: My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas.
100
The shape in which the earth orbits?
What is an ellipse?
200
the sun is straight up in the sky.
What is noontime?
200
The visible face of the Moon grows increasingly bright; the lunar crescent gradually changes until it forms a semi-circle after one week.
What is first quarter?
200
Days become longer.
What is autumn or fall?
200
The only planet that supports life.
What is Earth?
200
The degree in which the Earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23 degrees?
300
This causes the shortest day of the year.
What is winter solstice?
300
As the Moon moves closer to the Sun, its shadow begins to obscure the Sun’s disk
What is a wanning gibbous?
300
Earth is tilted and turned far away from the sun.
What is winter?
300
This planet has visible rings.
What is Saturn?
300
The amount of days it takes for the Earth to complete a full orbit around the sun.
What is 365 days?
400
This causes the longest day of the year.
What is summer solstice?
400
The bright side gradually recedes until it becomes a half-moon
What is last quarter?
400
Earth is tilted towards and facing the sun.
What is summer?
400
This planet is the largerst in the solar system?
What is Jupiter?
400
days and nights share an equal amount of time
What are Equinoxes?
500
the further away from this you become the longer your days will be in the summer and the shorter they will be in the winter.
What is the equator?
500
The Moon lies to the right of the Sun and appears in the sky at dawn in the form of a thin crescent.
What is old crescent?
500
because of this seasonal weather is produced
What is the Earth's tilted axis?
500
This planet has recently been disputed over and is now not considered a planet.
What is Pluto?
500
The ancient Greeks thought that the seasons owed their existence to an unfortunate marriage between Persephone, the daughter of the goddess of the harvest, and Hades, the god of the underworld. For four months out of the year Persephone would travel to the underworld to visit her husband; stricken with grief, her mother Demeter would let the fields grow cold and lifeless.
What is a Greek Myth?
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