A Long Time Ago In Our Universe...
Solar System Stuff
It's Just a Phase!
Where in the World?
Total Eclipse of the Heart
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The leading theory about the formation of the universe is called the Big This.
What is Bang?
400
Earth's axis is tilted by about this many degrees.
What is 23.45?
400
This lunar phase is bigger than a half moon, but smaller than a full moon.
What is a gibbous moon?
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Neenah, Wisconsin's latitude is 44°N. It is in this hemisphere.
What is the Northern hemisphere?
400
A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun and moon are on these sides of Earth.
What are opposite sides?
800
Because of the force from the Big Bang, our universe is constantly doing this. We know because of redshift and radio waves.
What is expanding?
800
This dwarf planet was kicked out of the Real Planet Club in 2006, after the discovery of similar rocky bodies in the Kuiper Belt.
What is Pluto?
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Another word for "shrinking," which we use to name lunar phases, is this.
What is waning?
800
The equator, in the middle of Earth, is this degree of latitude.
What is zero?
800
A solar eclipse happens when the moon is here.
What is between the Earth and the sun?
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Scientists think that before the Big Bang, our whole universe was in this sort of state.
What is a hot, dense state?
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The difference between the sun and the planets is that the sun burns brightly and produces its own this, while planets and moons do not.
What is light?
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The first quarter moon is named such because we see this phase when the moon is here in its orbit around Earth.
What is one quarter of the way around?
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The N or S in a place's latitude coordinates tell you this about its location.
Where are the Northern or Southern hemisphere?
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The halo that appears around the moon during a total solar eclipse is called the sun's this. (Don't worry, you don't need a mask.)
What is a corona?
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Our Solar System started out as a cloud of dust and gas that flattened into this spinning shape.
What is a disk?
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This "fashionable" area of the solar system is a ring of large rocks that separates the inner planets from the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
1600
This motion of the moon as the sun shines on it is the reason we see lunar phases.
What is orbit?
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What is revolution?
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This region of Earth gets the most direct sunlight per year.
What is the equator?
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What is Quito, Ecuador?
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To see a total solar eclipse, you need to be standing in the darkest part of the moon's shadow, called this.
What is the umbra?
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The "This" Effect shows that galaxies in our universe are redshifted, which means they are moving away from each other at amazing speeds.
What is the Doppler Effect?
2000
This force pulled matter from the Big Bang together to form galaxies and solar systems.
What is gravity?
2000
The moon does not produce its own light like the sun does. Instead, this is why the moon shines.
What is reflected light from the sun?
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As we get farther from the equator, these changes in temperature happen.
What are colder weather and more severe seasons?
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This quality of the moon's orbit is why we don't have eclipses every single month.
What is a tilted orbit?