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Where on Earth?
100

The phases in which more of the moon becomes visible in the night sky?

What are the waxing phases? 

100

The moon comes between the Earth and this during a solar eclipse. 

What is the sun?

100

June 22.

What is the summer solstice?
100

Four divisions of the year marked by weather patterns and daylight hours.

What are Seasons?

100

0 degrees latitude. 

What is the equator?

200

When you can't see a visible moon in the night sky.

What is the new moon?

200

When the Earth or moon blocks some of the light from the sun. 

What is a partial eclipse?

200

March 22.

What is the Vernal Equinox?

200

An almost circular, repeating path around the Sun. 

What is Earth's orbit?
200

The imaginary line on which the earth rotates.

What is Earth's axis?

300
The two phases commonly referred to as half moons. 

What are the first quarter and third quarter moons?

300

When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another. 

What is an eclipse? 

300

September 22. 

What is the Autumnal Equinox?
300

When the view of the Sun from the Earth is blocked by the Moon. 

What is a solar eclipse?

300

90 degrees North latitude.

What is the North Pole?

400

The moon phase between first first quarter and full moon. 

What is waxing Gibbous?

400

When the Earth or Moon fully blocks light from the sun.

What is a total eclipse?

400

December 22.

What is the winter solstice?

400

When the Moon moves into Earth's Shadow. 

What is a lunar eclipse?

400

23 degrees North latitude.

What is the Tropic of Cancer?

500

The number of of days it takes for the moon to make one full cycle. 

What is 29.5 days?

500

Why we don't have eclipses every month. 

What is the tilt of the moons orbit?

500

The amount of sunlight that strikes a given surface.

What is Solar flux?

500

Imaginary lines that run East to West to measure the distance North or South from the Equator.

What are lines of latitude?

500

66.5 degrees south latitude.

What is the Antarctic Circle.
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