Seasons
The seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth's ________.
What is axis?
This type of eclipse happens when the Earth's shadow falls on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This moon phase looks like a crescent and happens just after the new moon.
What is a waxing crescent?
How long it takes the Moon to go through all its phases once.
What is about 29.5 days (one lunar month)?
This object in our solar system has the strongest gravity.
What is the Sun?
This season has the longest days and most sunlight.
What is summer?
This type of eclipse happens when the Moon blocks the Sun.
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What is a solar eclipse?
Bonus: What is a lunar eclipse?
When the Moon is getting bigger, we say it is ____.
What is waxing?
This moon phase happens halfway between full moon and new moon.
What is last quarter (or third quarter)?
The force of gravity between two objects depends on their mass and this.
What is distance?
In December it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, making it __________________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
A lunar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.
What is a full moon phase?
This moon phase comes after the full moon, when the lit part starts to shrink.
What is waning gibbous?
When the lighted part of the Moon is getting smaller, we say it is ____.
What is waning?
If two objects have the same mass, but one is closer, it will feel ______ gravitational force.
What is stronger?
This imaginary line separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and receives the most direct sunlight year-round.
What is the equator?
A solar eclipse can only happen during this moon phase.
What is the new moon phase?
The Moon appears to change shape because of how sunlight hits it. What do we call these apparent changes?
What are moon phases?
The path the Moon takes around the Earth?
Bonus: The moon ___________________ around Earth. $400
What is orbit?
Bonus: What is revolves?
If Earth were twice as far from the Sun, the gravitational pull between them would be ____.
What is weaker or decreased?
On the equinox, day and night are about equal in length. Name the two equinoxes.
What are the spring and fall equinoxes.
The reason we don’t we have a solar or lunar eclipse every month during the new and full moon phases.
Double Bonus: This type of solar eclipse happens when the Moon is too far from Earth to completely cover the Sun, leaving a ring of sunlight. $1000
What is the tilt of the Moon’s orbit (about 5 degrees), so the Sun, Earth, and Moon don’t usually line up perfectly?
Double Bonus: What is an annular eclipse?
The reason we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth.
What happens because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate it orbits Earth? (this is called synchronous rotation)
If tonight is a waxing gibbous, the moon phase that will come in the next few days.
What is a full moon?
Your mass stays the same everywhere, but your ______ changes depending on gravity.
What is weight?