Light
Cycle of Day and Night
Phases of the Moon
Vocab.
Misc.
100

What is light?

Visible radiation

100

What causes day and night?

What is Earth's rotation on its axis?

100

The moon is illuminated because it does this. 

What is reflects the Sun?

100
Earth's path around the Sun. 

What is an orbit?

100

The Sun provides both of these.

What is light and heat?

200

How fast does light travel?

What is 300 000 km/s?

200

Earth rotates in what direction?

What is West to East?

200
In this moon phase, the moon is completely illuminated. 

What is a full moon?

200

An invisible line through Earth's poles.

What is an axis?

200

At this time of day, the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky. 

What is noon?

300

How does light travel?

What is in a straight line?

300

Earth is tilted at this many degrees. 

What is 23°?

300

A lunar eclipse can be these two types. 

What is total or partial?

300

Earth spinning on itself.

What is rotation?

300

An imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between its poles. 

What is the Equator?

400

What happens when light hits an object?

Some light is reflected and some light is absorbed.

400

The cause of seasons. 

What is Earth's tilt and revolution around the Sun?

400

Phases of the Moon describe these parts.

What are the illuminated parts of the Moon?

400

Earth's movement around the Sun.

What is revolution?

400

A time of year marking the start of summer or winter.

What is a solstice?

500

White light is made up of this. 

What are all the colours of the rainbow?

500

What takes 365.25 days?

What is one Earth revolution around the Sun?

500

Certain properties of light are responsible for these astronomical phenomena.

What are lunar eclipses and Moon phases?

500

A time when day and night are equal length.

What is an equinox?

500

Name an artifical source of light.

Various possible answers.