Vocab
When one object blocks the light that another object emits or reflects.
What is a Shadow?
The order of the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a lunar eclipse.
What is Sun, Moon, and Earth
The cause of seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis to or away from the Sun?
This is when the Moon appears to get bigger.
What is a waxing Moon?
The difference between a revolution and rotation.
What is a revolution is the motion of one object another while a rotation is an object spinning?
When the Sun shines on the Moon, causing it to cast a shadow that extends out to space.
What is Solar eclipse?
The length a total Solar eclipse lasts.
What is no more than seven minutes?
The distance of the Earth and Sun when the Earth is closest to the Sun.
What is 147 million km?
How long does it takes to make one revolution around Earth for the moon
What is 27.3 days
This is where polar night and midnight sun occur.
What is the Arctic circle experiences midnight sun, and the Antarctic circle will experience polar night?
A day when Earth's rotation axis is the most toward or away from the sun.
What is a Solstice?
This is what makes total Solar eclipses so rare.
What is the Moon doesn't cover the Sun completely because of the tilt in the Moon's orbit, and you have to be in the Moon's Umbra at the perfect time?
This is when the north end of the rotation axis tilts more and more away from the Sun.
What is the September equinox to the December solstice?
This is when the Western half of the Moon is lit.
What is the third quarter?
A day when Earth's rotation axis is leaning along Earth's orbit, neither toward nor away from the Sun.
What is an Equinox?
The rays that are still being emitted during the Solar eclipse that could cause damage to your eyes during the eclipse.
What are Ultra-Violet (UV) rays?
This is when the earth is closest to the Sun.
What is January 3rd?
This is when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are lined up but not an eclipse.
What is a new or full moon?
The person who announced the goal of landing man by the end of the decade.
What is John F. Kennedy?
The central, darker part of a shadow where light is totally blocked.
What is an Umbra?
Difference between a Solar and Lunar eclipse.
What is during a Solar eclipse you can see the outline of the Sun's light, while during a lunar eclipse the moon is completely covered but you can still kind of see the moon?
The way the Sun's energy is received by Earth.
What is the Sun's energy is received in an uneven, spread out way the farther you get from the Sun, North or South?
The average of 50 minutes later each day.
What is the Moon's motion around Earth causes the Moon to rise?
The next eclipse we may be able to witness.
What is the partial Lunar eclipse Mar.3,2026?