Moon Phases
When the moon is fully illuminated
What is full moon?
Liquid water can exist on the planet and can support advanced life is known as
What is the habitable zone?
The Moon's shadow falls on the Earth by passing in front of the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
When the Sun is highest in the sky and hemisphere and also the first day of summer.
What is the summer solstice?
When the moon is not visible
What is new moon?
The solar system lies within a spiral galaxy called
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
Earth's shadow covers the face of the Moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
When the sun is lowest in the sky and hemisphere and the least hours of sunlight.
What is the winter solstice?
This term is used instead of half Moon.
What is first quarter or last quarter?
Astronomers refer to planets in the habitable zone as the
What is "goldilocks planets"?
The Moon completely covers the Sun, and the sky becomes dark.
What is a total solar eclipse?
Latitude 23.5oN in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This term means increasing or growing.
What is waxing, waxing crescent, or waxing gibbous?
Four innermost planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The Moon passes completely into Earth's umbra.
What is a total lunar eclipse?
Latitude 23.5oS and in the Southern Hemisphere
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
This means decreasing.
What is waning, waning gibbous, or waning crescent?
Outer four planets
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The darkest, inner part of the shadow.
What is the umbra?
Earth's axis neither tilts away nor toward the Sun and this happens halfway between the solstices.
What is the equinoxes?