Talking about a revolution
Fly me to the Moon
To everything there is a season
The Tide is High
Total Eclipse of my Heart
100
The invisible line that the Earth "spins" on is called this.
What is an axis?
100
This moon phase looks as if half of its right side is illuminated.
What is the first quarter moon?
100
Earth is tilted toward the sun and there are more hours of daylight. What season is it?
Summer
100
These tides are "strong" tides, as in they are higher high tides and lower low tides.
What is a spring tide?
100
A phenomena when the shadow of the moon blocks the sun?
What is a solar eclipse?
200
The Earth takes about this amount of time to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
200
This phase of the moon occurs after waxing gibbous?
What is a full moon?
200
This day has warmer temperatures, direct sunlight and the most sunlight to night ratio in the United States.
What is the summer solstice (or June 21st)?
200
This type of tide is associated with this sun, earth, moon alignment.
What is a neap tide?
200
This type of eclipse occurs when the Earth shadows the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
300
The Earth's rotation causes this phenomena.
What is day and night?
300
This moon phases appears to have over half of its surface illuminated on the left.
What is a waning gibbous moon?
300
This phenomena occurs in spring and autumn when there are equal parts day and night.
What is an equinox?
300
This type of tide is associated with this alignment of sun, earth, moon.
What is a spring tide?
300
This is the phase of the moon during a lunar eclipse.
What is the full moon?
400
This is how long it takes to go through all the moon's phases.
What is 29 days?
400
What moon phase is occurring during this neap tide?
What is the third quarter moon?
400
This is the position of Earth that corresponds to winter in the Northern hemisphere.
What is 4?
400
These two moons cause neap tides.
What is the first quarter and third quarter moon?
400
This is the alignment of celestial bodies when a solar eclipse occurs.
What is Sun then (new) moon then Earth?
500
The direction that all celestial bodies rotate and revolve in our solar system?
What is counter-clockwise?
500
This is the moon phase that is visible following phase 1.
What is the waxing crescent?
500
This is the season in Australia (a continent in the southern hemisphere) when we (the northern hemisphere) are tilted towards the sun.
What is winter?
500
This arrangement of Sun, Earth, Moon is how you know it is a spring tide.
What is a straight line?
500
This is the alignment of celestial bodies during a lunar eclipse.
What is the sun, then the earth, then the moon?
600
These two things combined cause of seasons on Earth
What is the 23.5 degree tilt and the revolution around the sun?
600
This is the number of days between the waxing crescent and the waning crescent.
What is approximately 21 days?
600
This is the season when the Sun would be at maximum altitude in the sky for an observer in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
600
This phenomena from this celestial object has the greatest effect on the Earth's tides.
What is the moon's gravitational pull?
600
This diagram, showing the tilted orbital plane of the moon, explains this phenomena about solar and lunar eclipses.
What is the reason we don't have eclipses every month?
700
The shape of the moon seems to change due to our perspective (angle) and this celestial phenomena.
What is the moon's revolution around Earth?
700
This is when the moon appears to be getting bigger up to the full moon compared to the time after the full moon when the moon appears to be getting smaller.
What is the difference between the waxing phase and the waning phase?
700
This is why winter is colder and we have shorter days.
What is indirect light due to the Earth being tilted away from the sun?
700
Daily Double!!! Not about tides but Seasons....
This position on earth have the least amount of seasonal changes.
What is position 3?
700
During this alignment, you would experience this moon phase, this type of eclipse and this type of tide.
What is a new moon, a solar eclipse and a spring tide?