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Seasons
Tides
Eclipses
Moon Phases
Other Stuff
100
What is the MAIN reason for season on Earth?
What is the TILT of Earth's axis?
100
How many high tides occur in a 24 hour time period?
What is 2?
100
This occurs when a shadow makes the Sun or the Moon seem to grow dark.
What is an ECLIPSE?
100
What the new moon looks like.
What is a blank slate? HA!
100
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
200
What is the degree of Earth's axial tilt?
What is 23.5 degrees?
200
What is the MAIN reason for the cause of the tides?
What is Moon's gravitational pull on Earth.
200
This is the next time a total eclipse will be seen in the USA.
What is 2017?
200
Which comes first...Waxing or Waning?
What is Waxing?
200
This is where comets come from.
What is Kuiper belt and Oort cloud?
300
What two months do Equinox's occur?
What is March & September?
300
Which type of tides have the GREATEST tidal range?
What are Spring Tides?
300
This occurs when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in a direct line with each other, so that the Sun is completely blocked from Earth's view.
What is a SOLAR ECLIPSE?
300
What is the shape of a Waxing Gibbous Moon.
What is a "banana" shape?
300
What is the difference between a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?
What is meteoroid is in space. Meteors are moving through the atmosphere (shooting stars), and meteorites are RIGHT THERE ON THE GROUND!
400
What two months do Solstices occur?
What is December and June?
400
The moon phases that occur during during a Spring Tide.
What is Full and New moons?
400
This occurs when Earth is located between the Sun and Moon, such that Earth blocks the Sun's light from directly striking the Moon.
What is a LUNAR ECLIPSE?
400
What is the angle of Sun, Earth, and Moon during a first quarter Moon.
What is a 90 degree angle?
400
This is what sunspots are.
What is cooler spots on the sun?
500
On what date does the Sun shine directly overhead over the Tropic of Cancer? Summer Solstice
What is June 21, 2013 (summer solstice)
500
The moon phases that occur during Neap Tides.
What are 1st and 3rd Quarter?
500
Huge loops of gas tha extend outward from the photosphere of the sun.
What are prominences?
500
List the Moon phases in order from New to New.
What is New, Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon.
500
What are the 3 major types of galaxies that you learned about?
What are spiral, irregular, and elliptical?