Seasons
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
100

The number of seasons we have in North America.

What is four?

100

Tell me about a time you or someone you know viewed an eclipse.

What is:share your story.       

100

The number of moon phases. 

What is 8 different moon phases?

100

Earth spinning on its own axis causes this to occur.

What is the reason why we have day and night?

100

Tell us in your own word what rotation is.

What is the movement of the Earth or an object around on its own axis?

200

Seasons occur because of this 23.5 angle that points away and to sunshine. 

What is the Earth's tilt?

200

What precautions should one take when viewing a solar eclipse?

What is wear special solar eclipse protections glasses?

200

The phase immediately after waxing gibbous. 

What is a full moon phase?

200

Earth spinning around the Sun causes this to happen.

What are the seasons? What is a New Year?

200

During this part of the moon phase our visible moonlight gets bigger.

What is the waxing moon phase?

300
The imaginary line that extends from Earth's North Pole to the South Pole. 

What is the Earth's axis?

300

The positions of the Sun, Earth and Moon during a solar eclipse. 

What is the Sun, the Moon, and Earth?

300

The phase after a new moon.

What is a waxing crescent moon?

300
The first half moon phase immediately after waxing crescent moon.

What is a 1st quarter moon phase?

300

Tell us what revolve means. 

What is to orbit around another object?

400

If the Earth is tilted toward the Sun, I will experience one of these 2 seasons.

What is Summer, or Spring?

400

A lunar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.

What is a full moon?

400

It takes this long for the moon to go through all its phases or orbit the earth one time.

What is 29.5 days?

400

When the moon is less than half of its illuminated side. 

What is a crescent moon?

400

 The shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion as viewed from the Earth.

What is a moon phase?

500

If the Earth is tilted away from the Sun, I will experience one of these 2 seasons

What is Fall or Winter Season?

500

The positions of the Sun, Earth, Moon during a lunar eclipse. 

What is the Sun, the Earth, the Moon?

500

It takes this many days within a moon cycle for a full moon to occur.

What is 14-15 days?

500

When the moon is more than half of its illuminated light.

What is a gibbous moon phase?

500

During this part of the moon phases our visible moonlight gets smaller.

What is the waning part of the moon phases?

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