Seasons
Moon Phases
Eclipses
How long? How many?
Tides
100
The location on the globe where cities experience the most extreme changes in daylight and night hours.
What are the poles?
100
The phase of the moon when we cannot see the moon.
What is new moon?
100
This eclipse happens when the moon is in the Earth's shadow and the full moon, sun, and Earth are lined up directly.
What is a Lunar eclipse
100
What is the length of time it takes the Earth to revolve around the sun?
365 days or one year
100
A characteristic of high tides.
What is "the water moves higher up the beach" ?
200
This is the season that occurs when the hemisphere is closest to the sun.
What is summer?
200
The phase of the moon that is completely illuminated by the sun?
What is a full moon?
200
This eclipse happens when the sun is blocked by the moon. The new moon, Earth, and sun line up.
What is a Solar eclipse?
200
What is the length of time it takes the Earth to rotate one time on its axis?
about 24 hours
200
The position of the sun, moon, and earth during a Neap Tide.
What is "They are all at right angles to each other"?
300
In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the name of the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter.
What is the winter solstice?
300
This is the source of the moon's light.
What is the sun?
300
This is the moon phase that occurs during a solar eclipse.
What is the new moon phase?
300
What is the length of time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth?
one month (approx. 28 days)
300
Daily Double! Make a wager:
The reason spring tides cause higher high tides than a neap tide.
400
On June 21st (summer solstice), the most direct rays from the sun are concentrated at this "tropical" latitude.
What is the equator or the Tropic of Cancer?
400
Name this moon phase.
What is waxing crescent?
400
This is the moon phase that a lunar eclipse occurs.
What is a full moon phase?
400
Daily Double
(Make a wager)
The number of times you have traveled around the sun if you are 10 years old.
400
The motion the moon does around the Earth and the Earth does around the sun.
What is revolve?
500
Earth's temperatures and hours of daylight stay the most constant at this latitude.
What is the equator?
500
Name this moon phase.
What is "waning gibbous?"
500
The reason we don't have an eclipse during every new moon or full moon.
What is the moon's orbit is on a tilt so the sun, moon, and Earth only line up twice a year for an eclipse?
500
The reason for the seasons.
What is the earth's revolution and tilt of the earth's axis?
500
The type of tide always present during a new moon or full moon.
What is a spring tide?